In a report published today, Eclypsium, a cyber-security firm specialized in firmware security, says that the issue of unsigned firmware is still a widespread problem among device and peripheral ...

A cyberattack group dubbed Equation group by Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab has a portfolio of intricate and highly sophisticated malware that dates back to at least 2001. The organization is ...

If true, the program would give the NSA unprecedented access to the world’s computers, even when disconnected from the larger web. Viruses stored on a hard drive’s firmware are typically activated as ...

It was just over twelve hours ago now when I reported that the NSA has reportedly got an all-seeing eye within the firmware of hard drives made by the biggest storage giants on the market. Well, this ...

There is a page in IBM's support archives which may explain the motivation behind Apple's release of two firmware upgrades - one for Mac OS 9 and one for Mac OS X - that purportedly increase longevity ...

Kaspersky has some damning claims against HDD giants Seagate and Western Digital, where it has said that the NSA has spying backdoors installed onto the HDD firmware of the leading HDD manufacturers ...

Seagate announced the detection and fixing of firmware issues concerning some of its wireless hard drives. Three hard drives containing the firmware versions 2.2.0.005 and 2.3.0.014, from Oct. 2014, ...

Kaspersky Lab discovered stealthy, sophisticated and scary Equation group cyber-espionage attacks such as infecting hard drive firmware with "invisible and persistent" malware that cannot be ...

The storage vendor has been fielding customer requests for help with some of the hard drives in its Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22, and Barracuda ES.2 SATA families. The issue, in which under some ...

A new firmware fix for some MacBook Pro hard drives aims to stop random noises, perhaps bringing relief to some who have been plagued by clicking and beeping internal drives. Hard Drive Firmware ...

A cyberespionage group with a toolset similar to ones used by U.S. intelligence agencies has infiltrated key institutions in countries including Iran and Russia, utilizing a startlingly advanced form ...