Dell is adding BIOS protection to its suite of security protections. One solution handles advanced authentication, encryption, and malware detection along with BIOS verification Intel and PC makers ...

As security defenses have advanced and become more adaptive in the last decade, malware authors and attackers have had to respond, looking for new ways to get their malicious software onto PCs or ...

There’s a growing threat of attacks on computer basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware, and to deter it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is putting in place new security ...

Updating your motherboard BIOS isn’t something most people think about–and given the risks of a failed update, it’s easy to see why many people avoid it. If it fails, the motherboard gets “bricked,” ...

As more hardware vendors seek to implement the new NIST 800-155 specification that was designed to make the start-up BIOS firmware on our PCs and laptops more secure, they may need to rethink the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Cybersecurity has been issue No. 1 for government IT leaders for years now, but it’s become an especially urgent need this year as attacks have crippled Baltimore, prompted cities in ...

Computers today use the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware to initialize the hardware process and then turn over control to the operating system. Therefore, any malware that affects the BIOS is ...

Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo has issued a security advisory to warn of several high-severity BIOS vulnerabilities impacting hundreds of devices in the various models (Desktop, All in One, ...

Everyone is familiar with the process of booting up a computer. Many of us do this every day – pressing the power button, hearing the startup sound, and seeing the home screen appear. But even some ...