What happens when you run a Linux command? This simple act can appear straightforward, but many different things can actually occur, depending on whether you’re running an executable program, a shell ...

Back in 2017, researchers theorized that Linux binaries could potentially be used as backdoors to gain access to WSL, but there has never been evidence of such activity in the wild until now. Today's ...

Shell builtins are commands that are loaded into memory when a shell — such as bash, sh, or zsh — is invoked. The reason for this is that keeping these commands in memory helps ensure that these ...

Support for Linux binaries in a new Windows 10 Anniversary Update feature expands the OS’ attack surface, experts said. Microsoft’s release of Windows Anniversary Update last week included an optional ...

You use the chmod command to set each of these permissions. To see what permissions have been set on a file or directory, we ...

Out of curiosity, I pulled out an old piece of merge-sort code I'd written a few years ago and compiled it using both Dev-C++ and gcc 2.95.3. Dev-C++ is a Win32 port of gcc 2.95.3, for anyone who wasn ...