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 ...

There 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 for Mac OS X - that purportedly increase longevity ...

Apple has released a hard-drive firmware update for 2010 iMac models that addresses problems with the systems not booting correctly. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

#7 I'd be happy without the software support, with just an officially supported SSD/HDD solution (and a graphics card to take up the newly freed space in the 13", necessary to drive the 2560x1600 ...

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 ...