A serious hardware vulnerability, thought to be confined to UEFI drivers in Lenovo and HP laptops, has also been found in firmware running on motherboards sold by Gigabyte. The flaw was publicly disclosed last week by researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk. No patches are yet available. Related Posts Threatpost News Wrap, June 17, 2016 June 17, 2016...

A private industry notification sent by the FBI in late April to its business partners warns of the risks associated with KeySweeper, a tool released in January 2015 by noted hardware hacker and researcher Samy Kamkar. Sixteen months ago, Kamkar released the source code and instructions on how to build the device, which looks like...