Yesterday, at the BlackHat Asia 2017 security conference, researchers from cyber-security firm Cylance disclosed two vulnerabilities in the firmware of Gigabyte BRIX small computing devices, which ...

When installing a fresh copy of Windows 10, you typically use a USB flash drive to launch the "Windows Setup" wizard to continue with the installation process. However, on a device that has a Unified ...

Binarly spotted a legitimate utility, trusted on most modern systems utilizing UEFI firmware, carrying a flaw The flaw allowed threat actors to deploy bootkit malware Microsoft patched it the June ...

Over the past few years, the world has seen ransomware threats advance from living inside browsers to operating systems, to the bootloader, and now to the low-level firmware that powers a computer’s ...

Just before we start, you should know that this post is not about switching firmware modes. If you are planning to move from legacy BIOS to UEFI, you will have to use MBR2GPT Tool. So if you are in a ...

This article describes how to enable Secure Boot to install Windows 11. How Do I Enable Secure Boot? The easiest way to enable Secure Boot is to do so through UEFI. It's typically listed as one of the ...

Earlier this week I realized that there had recently been a new release of PCLinuxOS. It was not as easy or obvious as you might think to notice this, because there was no release announcement that I ...

Good or bad, useful or not, implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and Microsoft’s Secure Boot extension might well foul the fuel driving consumer migration to the Linux desktop.

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...