You may still call it the BIOS out of habit, but make no mistake: the BIOS is long gone. UEFI is what brought the PC platform into the modern era, and it has been doing the heavy lifting for years.

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 ...

Just before we start, you should know that this post is not about switching firmware modes. If you are planning to move from legacy BIOS to UEFI, you will have to use MBR2GPT Tool. So if you are in a ...

The vulnerabilities were introduced when Lenovo inadvertently included an early development driver in the commercial versions of their software. Lenovo has released fixes for high-severity bios ...

If you own a PC from Dell, HP or Lenovo, chances are very good that the BIOS or UEFI firmware update you installed earlier this month is bad. Here’s how to dig ...

If HP diagnostics tool says, "Your current version of diagnostics is not up to date", you need to follow the solutions ...

Researchers have discovered 23 "high-impact vulnerabilities" affecting any vendors that adopted Independent BIOS Developers (IBV) code into their Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware.

The glitch stems from a functionality intended to allow updates to the UEFI firmware. LAS VEGAS – Researchers said they found buffer overflow flaws in the firmware for ASRock and ASUS, potentially ...

Firmware: the unprotected layer inside every computer. Two months ago, researchers at US security company AdvIntel discovered that one of the Internet’s most troublesome malware platforms, Trickbot, ...

ESET Research has published a paper detailing the discovery of a malware campaign that used repurposed commercial software to create a backdoor in computers’ firmware—a “rootkit,” active since at ...