Recently [Dillan Stock] bought a $17 ‘mushroom’ lamp from his local Kmart that listed ‘USB-C rechargeable’ as one of its features. Unfortunately while this is technically true, there’s a pretty major ...

We’ve been recently looking into USB 2.0 – the ubiquitous point-to-point communications standard. USB 2 is completely different from USB 3, the blue-connector next-generation USB standard. For ...

Mike Kershaw from Kismet and Mike Baker of OpenWRT authored the USB hack. The detailed instructions are on Chris Paget's blog. The basic concept is to build one connector using three cables: a micro ...

Cybersecurity experts are warning about a new threat from ordinary-looking charging cables. A Kane in Your Corner investigation finds that some cables contain a hidden chip that turns them into ...

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