The glitch stems from a functionality intended to allow updates to the UEFI firmware.

As Black Hat’s keynote kicks off today, Threatpost pinpoints the most popular trends of the conference with enSilo’s CEO.

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals preview Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018, which both take place this week in Las Vegas.

WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins pleaded not guilty last week could be freed today on $30,000 bond before the case moves to Wisconsin.

The news of the week is discussed, including how Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTech was arrested in Las Vegas, Alex Stamos’ Black Hat keynote, and this week’s proposed IoT legislation.

Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTech the WannaCry hero, was arrested and charged with another unnamed individual with creating and distributing the Kronos banking malware.

The WannaCry story has new life with the attacks having withdrawn the Bitcoin collected as ransom during the attacks, and with the detainment of killswitch researcher Marcus Hutchins in Nevada.

Black Hat may be the benchmark signaling the end of security nihilism and snark, and a re-prioritization of energy toward the greater good.

Amazon said it will halt sale of popular low-cost Android phones made by Blu Products because of reports software on the phone is collecting and sharing user data without owner consent.

At Black Hat last week, an add-on Windows driver and filesystem called ShieldFS was unveiled that detects ransomware and recovers files.