UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard designed to replace the venerable PC BIOS. Does your system support UEFI yet? Watch out for those 3 Tbyte hard drives if you don't. UEFI ...

The Unified EFI Forum is a trade group that includes Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and ARM. The goal? To develop and implement UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The specification replaces BIOS ...

BIOS, the archaic firmware that sits between a computer's hardware and the operating system, is set to be replaced by the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The move is intended to improve ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 20 vulnerabilities have been found affecting unified extensible firmware interfaces (UEFI) software, allowing attackers to bypass hardware security mechanisms. Security firm Binarly has ...

The short answer to the headline’s question is that a UEFI scanner is all about helping you protect your computer against people who seek to take it over by abusing its Unified Extensible Firmware ...

A team from Binarly, a firmware protection company, recently discovered several repeatable anomalies on twenty different enterprise machines in the course of a job for a midsize enterprise company.

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. One of the oldest pieces of computer technology still widely used today is on its way out, to be ...

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...