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

Researchers at Duo Security are expected today at Ekoparty to reveal data and a paper that shows Mac users are not receiving EFI firmware updates at expected.

Today’s WikiLeaks Vault 7 Dark Matter release shows the CIA’s capabilities to attack and persist on Apple iPhone and Mac firmware and an apparent interdiction of the iPhone supply chain.

Opponents of the government’s constant talk about intentional backdoors and exceptional access finally may have their case study as to why it’s such a bad idea. Two researchers operating under aliases (my123 and slipstream) this week posted a report—accompanied by a relentless chiptune—that reveals how Microsoft inadvertently published a Secure Boot policy that acts as...

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...