UEFI flaw leaves ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock motherboards exposed to DMA attacks Firmware falsely reports IOMMU protection enabled, allowing malicious PCIe devices pre‑boot access Riot Games ...

UEFI firmware flaws in certain ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI motherboards allow early-boot DMA attacks before OS security ...

Lenovo has published a security advisory on vulnerabilities that impact its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) loaded on at least 100 of its laptop models. A total of three security issues ...

The scope of the ThinkPwn UEFI vulnerability disclosed last week has grown past Lenovo and HP laptop firmware to motherboards sold by Gigabyte. A serious hardware vulnerability, thought to be confined ...

To understand the transition from legacy BIOS to UEFI firmware, it’s best to begin with a review of a decades-old system—the 1983 IBM-compatible PC—and continue with a study of its successor ...

New versions of the computer's operating system (OS) get all of the attention, but an unheralded evolution is also occurring in the core system firmware that is responsible for getting things started ...

UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) security has been a hot topic for the past few years, but, due to various limitations, very little UEFI-based malware has been found in the past. After ...

More than two dozen Lenovo notebook models are vulnerable to malicious hacks that disable the UEFI secure-boot process and then run unsigned UEFI apps or load bootloaders that permanently backdoor a ...

Microsoft's proposed use of Unfied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) in Windows 8 could be used to block all other operating systems from Windows 8 systems. The Linux Foundation and partners have a ...

The UEFI firmware implementation in some motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock is vulnerable to direct memory ...