Five years after the Equation Group HDD hacks, firmware security still sucks Device manufacturers are not forcing driver signatures at all times. Written by Catalin Cimpanu, Contributor ...

Reason for Apple hard drive firmware updatesThere is a page in IBM's support archives which may explain the motivation behind Apple's release of two firmware upgrades - one for Mac OS 9 and one ...

Apple has released a hard-drive firmware update for 2010 iMac models that addresses problems with the systems not booting correctly.

Description: The firmware of the vulnerable hard drive has Telnet services that can be reached by using factory credentials of 'root' as username and the default password.

However, a statement from the mass HDD manufacturer suggests it's highly unlikely this particular issue will cause data loss, but should that have been the case, Seagate says it will provide a ...

It looks like Western Digital and Seagate are just agents of the NSA, with spying backdoors installed into their HDDs firmware according to Kaspersky.

The scenario that Sprite_tm envisions was made possible by WD's firmware upgrade tool for DOS and idle3-tools , a group of tools for HDD made by WD using the Linux SCSI driver.

If true, the program would give the NSA unprecedented access to the world’s computers, even when disconnected from the larger web. Viruses stored on a hard drive’s firmware are typically ...

Kaspersky Labs exposed a breakthrough U.S. spying program, which taps into hard drives. According to Kaspersky, malicious software is hidden in the firmware, and launches every time a computer is ...

Anyone think it would be pretty nifty if Apple did away with the optical drive in the new macbook pros and replaced it with both better graphics (especially on the 13") and also an SSD of a decent ...