Security News

Sharp introduces multifunction printers that include firmware attack prevention
2018-12-14 14:38

Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), introduced a new line of Advanced and Essentials Series color document systems for the...

Firmware Security Firm Eclypsium Raises $8.75 Million
2018-12-04 14:25

Eclypsium, a Portland, OR-based company that specializes in firmware security, on Tuesday announced that it raised $8.75 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round. read more

Helping researchers with IoT firmware vulnerability discovery
2018-11-19 07:20

John Toterhi, a security researcher with IoT security company Finite State, believes that many of the security problems plaguing IoT devices are solvable problems through transparency....

​4 best practices to combat new IoT security threats at the firmware level
2018-11-12 22:32

Firmware may be the next frontier for IoT hacks. See below how the healthcare industry addresses these threats.

You dirty DRAC: IT bods uncover Dell server firmware security slip
2018-10-03 17:44

Weakness not easy to leverage, but iDRAC exploit would mean game over for admins A pair of IT professionals have uncovered a potentially serious flaw in the hardware management tools for older...

ProTip: Automate setting a firmware password on Apple computers
2018-09-22 21:12

Securing Mac computers means more than just protecting the data. Limiting the ways a user can gain access to a device--including bypassing the existing OS or resetting account passwords is easily...

Intel releases firmware update for ME flaw
2018-09-18 19:13

It’s only September and yet 2018 is well on its way to being remembered as the year of fixing flaws we didn’t realise were possible in hardware we’d never heard of.

Intel Patches Firmware Flaw That Leaks ME Encryption Keys
2018-09-14 08:18

Researcher Finds Intel's Previous Management Engine Patches Weren't FoolproofIntel has had a challenging time of late on the vulnerability front. It has issued yet another patch for its Management...

New Firmware Flaws Resurrect Cold Boot Attacks
2018-09-13 12:33

Researchers discovered that the firmware running on nearly all modern computers is vulnerable to cold boot attacks that can allow hackers to recover highly sensitive data from the device’s memory....

Supermicro servers fixed after insecure firmware updating discovered
2018-09-10 12:16

Researchers have sounded a warning about the security of Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) - a critical component that datacentres depend on to manage servers.