Over the past few years, the world has seen ransomware threats advance from living inside browsers to operating systems, to the bootloader, and now to the low-level firmware that powers a computer’s ...

When installing a fresh copy of Windows 10, you typically use a USB flash drive to launch the "Windows Setup" wizard to continue with the installation process. However, on a device that has a Unified ...

UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. It is a replacement for the BIOS, which is used to set up the hardware and load and start an operating system in today’s Windows 11/10 PCs. What ...

LogoFAIL discovery and impact Abusing image parsers for attacks on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) was demonstrated in 2009 when researchers Rafal Wojtczuk and Alexander Tereshkin ...

If you bought a pre-built desktop PC, it’s a safe bet that the manufacturer optimized the basic input/output system (BIOS) settings for the hardware in the box—though it never hurts to check them out ...

Other than securing your local account with a password or a PIN, one can set and use BIOS or UEFI passwords on their Windows computer. In this post, we see how you can set up an Administrator or ...

Intel have announced that by 2020 they are going to phase out the final remnants of the PC BIOS and make a complete switch over to UEFI firmware. That will make hardware development easier, make it ...