firmware

Old Routers Pose Security Risk, Warns Which?

Elderly routers that can no longer receive firmware updates posed security risk to millions of people, consumer group Which? warns

3 years ago

Intel Ships Revised Spectre Patches

Chip giant rolls out revised Spectre patches, after initial fix proved worse than the bug it was supposed to repair

6 years ago

US Government Warns Businesses Over Intel Management Engine Flaw

Business PCs from Dell, Lenovo, HP and others contain flawed software that shipped with Intel processors

6 years ago

Firmware Flaw Leaves Netgear Routers Vulnerable To Hacker Takover

Hackers can exploit a command injection flaw to execute malicious code on Netgear routers

7 years ago

Firmware Flaw Affects Lenovo ThinkPads, Other PC Makers’ Hardware

ANALYSIS: New zero-day vulnerability may also affect computers from other makers that used similar Intel UEFI reference code to create…

8 years ago

Satellite Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Could Be Used To Hack Aircraft Says Researcher

Flaws in SATCOM firmware could compromise security of planes and ships, warns Ruben Santamarta, who will show his findings at…

10 years ago

Bristol’s XMOS Joins EU Project For Efficient Chips

The European ENTRA project will build energy awareness into the chip design stage, to make gadgets more efficient

11 years ago

Microsoft Blames Firmware Update For Cloud Failure

A firmware update caused a data centre temperature spike, that in turn nixed access to Hotmail and Outlook.com

11 years ago

HP Dismisses Malicious Printer Hijack Hack

Firmware print job redirection hack publicly demonstrated by a Columbia University team disputed by HP

12 years ago