Operating systems are designed to work on $200 laptops and $5,000 workstations and everything that comes in between, so you can count on their defaults to be a tad ill-suited. As you'd expect, Windows ...

As the saying goes, when one door closes, another door opens – and it’s as true for cybercriminals as it is for anyone else. Recent advances in security research have demonstrated that as more ...

Software based on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard makes up the firmware of most modern desktop computers and servers. This software is largely invisible to users, critical to ...

While Apple has complete control over the hardware and operating system, Microsoft historically has not. But now Microsoft is aiming to bring its control over hardware up to Apple's level through ...

In today’s semiconductor landscape, scale is becoming a bigger battleground—not only for chipmakers, but increasingly for hyperscalers, cloud giants, and other systems companies, too. They're all ...

As many as 40 million Dell devices are vulnerable to targeted man-in-the-middle attacks. Dell advises BIOS/UEFI updates. The over-the-internet firmware update and OS recovery feature present in 128 ...

Eclypsium security researchers have uncovered UEFI vulnerabilities in the Illumina iSeq 100 DNA sequencer, but the broader issue involves the device development process at large. In highlighting ...

Firmware is the low-level software programmed into a device's read-only memory, responsible for controlling its hardware functions. In the context of routers and networking equipment, firmware ...

Those wanting to download drivers, firmware and software for Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, Surface Book & other Surface devices can do so from the Microsoft Download Center. It is essential, for ...