Following a flood of calls from customers, the company behind the LoJack anti-theft service which researchers from Core Security Technologies recently portrait as a security threat, issued a statement ...

Something that causes a security risk at a BIOS level should never be allowed ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OCP GLOBAL SUMMIT – Insyde® Software, a leading provider of UEFI BIOS and OpenBMC-based systems management software, announced today that it is the first independent ...

A new combination of software and VBIOS is reportedly able to bypass anti-mining restrictions put in place by Nvidia on some of its Ampere GPUs. As you may recall, Nvidia began releasing Low Hash Rate ...

Boyfriend and I run a variety of things in-house - a web server, a file server, and several online multiplayer games that he's designed. We're building a new server (right now the non-game stuff runs ...

Just when the Superfish fiasco has blown over, Lenovo is yet again being dragged into the hot seat for yet another potential security risk done for the sake of installing bloatware. The Lenovo Service ...

Typically, PC users do not give the low-level software on their computers a second thought. Known as the basic input-output system, or BIOS, this software plays an extremely important role in the way ...

BIOS enables computers to perform certain operations as soon as they are turned on. The principal job of a computer's BIOS is to govern the early stages of the startup process, ensuring that the ...

Extensible Firmware Interface, which could speed boot-up process for PCs, goes to a group that will promote and standardize it. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

Intel and Microsoft are gearing up to move toward the first major overhaul of the innermost workings of the personal computer--the boundary where software and hardware meet--during 2004. The companies ...

These anti-cheat protections are a real pain: not only they boil down to rootkits that give far too much control on a third part software, but they are a pain to satisfy (it took me a whole afternoon ...