Microsoft is reminding users that the Secure Boot ecosystem will soon require a mandatory check-up. The Redmond-backed security protocol, part of the UEFI specification and primarily ...

Learn about how the cutting-edge, free software Heads project detects BIOS and kernel tampering, all with keys under your control. Disclaimer: I work for Purism, and my experience with Heads began as ...

The term “open source” can be tricky. For many people, it’s taken to mean that a particular piece of software is free and that they can do whatever they wish with it. But the reality is far more ...

Microsoft has announced the availability of VS Code Spring Boot Application Development Extension Pack (aka Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code). This collection of extensions for developing and ...

Tom Anderson could not get Toast 3.5.4 to create a startup CD-ROM disc that would work on the latest G3 Macs. He contacted Adaptec about this and they replied: "Yes it's true that the boot code has ...

SPI NOR Flash is the electronics design engineer’s favorite memory type for low-density, high-reliability storage of application code and data in embedded systems ...

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Security researchers have discovered another flaw in recent Intel chips that, while difficult to exploit, is completely unpatchable. The vulnerability is within Intel's Converged Security and ...