Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is one of the most important pieces of software to boot an operating system on a computer. BIOS being an alternative to UEFI already is less preferred when ...

A tiny BIOS chip lurks inside every computer, sitting on your motherboard to breathe life into your system when you press the power button. It not only powers your PC, but helps protect it, too—as ...

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 ...

Even before the first personal computer appeared in 1984, BIOS technologies, which are needed to initialize hardware, test hardware functionalities and start the operating system, were already in use ...

The glitch stems from a functionality intended to allow updates to the UEFI firmware. LAS VEGAS – Researchers said they found buffer overflow flaws in the firmware for ASRock and ASUS, potentially ...

Firmware: the unprotected layer inside every computer. Two months ago, researchers at US security company AdvIntel discovered that one of the Internet’s most troublesome malware platforms, Trickbot, ...

If you own a PC from Dell, HP or Lenovo, chances are very good that the BIOS or UEFI firmware update you installed earlier this month is bad. Here’s how to dig ...

Binarly, a security research company that deals with firmware threats, has disclosed in a recent blog post that the InsydeH2O "Hardware-2-Operating System" UEFI BIOS, a firmware used by several major ...

The UEFI firmware used in several laptops made by Lenovo is vulnerable to three buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to hijack the startup routine of Windows installations.

New functionality discovered in Trickbot enables malicious actors to inspect the UEFI/BIOS firmware of targeted systems for well-known, unpatched vulnerabilities that, if exploited, would enable them ...