Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Lenovo has released security updates for more than 100 laptop models to fix critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for advanced hackers to surreptitiously install malicious firmware that can be next to impossible to remove or, in some cases, to detect. Three vulnerabilities affecting more than 1 million laptops can give […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Let’s say you’re a large company that has just shipped an employee a brand-new replacement laptop. And let’s say it comes preconfigured to use all the latest best security practices, including full-disk encryption using a trusted platform module, password-protected BIOS settings, UEFI SecureBoot, and virtually all other recommendations from the National […]
Microsoft claims that “the new Windows is available on the widest array of devices,” but the Internet had a minor panic attack when requirements were outlined yesterday. [credit: Microsoft ] Since Microsoft’s announcement of Windows 11 yesterday, one concern has reverberated around the Web more loudly than any other—what’s this about a Trusted Platform Module […]
Expand (charge: Getty Images) Among the Internet’s most competitive threats has only gotten meaner, together with the capability to infect a few of the most essential pieces of any modern-day pc. Trickbot is a bit of malware that is notable because of its innovative capabilities. Its modular frame excels in gaining strong administrator privileges, spreading […]
Expand / / Computer Program safety Idea. Errors from this program. Bugs in this program. The existence of a backdoor, rootkit. (charge: sasha85ru | Getty Imates) For just the second time at the annals of cybersecurity, scientists have discovered real-life malware lurking at the UEFI, both the non invasive and thoroughly opaque firmware necessary to […]