LogoFAIL, A New Way To Pick Up A UEFI Bootkit
There is yet another way to get one of the nastiest types of infections going, that being a UEFI bootkit. This type of malware hides in the extra space in your UEFI…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 1, 2023 | General Tech | 1
There is yet another way to get one of the nastiest types of infections going, that being a UEFI bootkit. This type of malware hides in the extra space in your UEFI…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 26, 2022 | General Tech | 0
It was assumed that UEFI infections, which are able to infect a system over and over again, even if you physically replace all of your storage media and reinstall your OS from…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 3, 2020 | General Tech | 1
Recent security research has revealed that someone is teaching Trickbot new tricks, and this one is right nasty. Trickbot started out as a minor villain, a trojan that enabled nefarious...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 5, 2020 | General Tech | 0
Infecting the UEFI on a motherboard is no small task thankfully, as you need physical access to hack the flash chip on the motherboard to implement a hack, there is no known…
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Feb 12, 2019 | Graphics Cards | 2
After reports first surfaced regarding the lack of UEFI support from the new Radeon VII graphics card (with an ASRock BIOS update the first to address the issue), AMD...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 2, 2019 | General Tech | 9
Welcome to a new year and a new vulnerability which has the potential to ruin your day, even if you wipe your computer and start afresh. Researchers have spotted a rootkit which…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 16, 2018 | General Tech | 2
The one part of your computer you still rely on to be safe are firmware updates to your UEFI, but of course there are also cases where this too can prove to…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 5, 2017 | General Tech | 1
Be careful what you do with your BRIX as two rather unpleasant vulnerabilities were disclosed at a recent BlackHat event. Gigabyte did not implement two security features which these exploits take advantage…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | May 9, 2016 | General Tech | 8
There are many good reasons to use the new UEFI Secure Boot under Windows 10 but there are also numerous reasons not to. The latest is an issue with a specific Windows…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 15, 2015 | General Tech | 5
Yet another revelation has come from the Hacking Team leak, a UEFI based rootkit which can infect computers and will survive AV scans and even a drive replacement. The rootkit is designed…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Apr 16, 2015 | General Tech, Storage | 24
UPDATE: ASUS has pointed us towards a poll they are running to gauge what platforms people are most anxious for NVMe Boot support on. So if you have an ASUS board and…
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Mar 10, 2015 | Processors | 2
ASUS has announced that all current Intel 9 Series motherboards will support the upcoming 5th-Generation Intel Broadwell LGA 1150 CPUs with an UEFI update. We reported last week that Intel’s...
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Jun 5, 2013 | Motherboards | 0
MSI announced new Z87 motherboards today, ready to accept Intel's new 4 Generation Core "Haswell" processors. The new Z87 boards are broken up into the company's "GAMING" series and a new "Overclock"…
Read Moreby Tim Verry | May 6, 2013 | Motherboards | 4
Over the weekend, Gigabyte posted a new photo to its Facebook page that teased the interface of the company’s upcoming UEFI BIOS. The new UEFI DualBIOS interface features an orange and black…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jan 1, 2013 | General Tech, Systems | 10
Steven J Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet published an update on the status of Secure Boot. Fans of Linux and other open-source operating systems have been outspoken against potential attempts by Microsoft...
Read Moreby Steve Grever | Jul 3, 2012 | Motherboards | 10
Introduction Courtesy of Gigabyte PC gaming is alive and well and hardware vendors are working to create unique features in their product lines to entice this niche audience....
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Nov 6, 2011 | Motherboards | 3
Many motherboard manufacturers have phased out the old school BIOS in favor of a shiny graphical user interface (GUI) UEFI BIOS that adds support for booting from larger capacity hard drives and…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 13, 2011 | General Tech, Motherboards | 1
To call The Tech Report obsessed about motherboards is an understatement, like here at PC Perspective there is never enough information to satisfy us fully. That is probably why we are such…
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