Internet
An international team of researchers is promoting the idea of using firmware to stop ransomware attacks before they can encrypt user data stored on a solid-state drive (SSD). The group presented their ideas back in 2018 at ...
Sep 10, 2021 report
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Computer Sciences
A combined team of security experts from Advanced Intelligence and Eclypsium has announced that the Trickbot trojan malware now has the ability to modify a computer's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface—the interface ...
Dec 4, 2020 report
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Hardware
Risky business has an impact on computer users and known brand-name vendors, and it is all about firmware, rarely scanned for vulnerabilities, and which can subvert existing security controls. A new report from enterprise ...
Feb 20, 2020 weblog
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Security
For many people who are not tech professionals, the word "firmware" first appears to them in the negative. News items over the past years have used the word over and over again to report attacks. What is firmware? If software ...
Oct 23, 2019 weblog
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Security
(Tech Xplore)—Regarding cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified in Abbott's (formerly St. Jude Medical's) implantable cardiac pacemakers, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a firmware update dated August 29.
Sep 1, 2017 weblog
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Security
(Tech Xplore)—Intel has reported details on a firmware vulnerability, but it does not exist on Intel-based consumer PCs.
May 4, 2017 weblog
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Security
What can you do if the reason for your computer infection is so deep that malicious code cannot be detected even with the best antivirus scans? Firmware has become a notoriously great place for mischief, with malware planted ...
Jan 31, 2016 weblog
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Software
Almost every new program code has bugs that, in the worst case, can potentially compromise security. In order to detect them quickly and efficiently, researchers from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr University ...
Dec 14, 2022
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Computer Sciences
As our personal data is increasingly used in many applications from advertising to finance to healthcare, protecting sensitive information has become an essential feature for computing architectures. Applications that process ...
Jul 14, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Hackers are breaking into home security cameras, and the process isn't always as difficult as you may think.
Dec 16, 2019
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