<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> My Lenovo thinkpad X61 fails to boot. It is about 9 months old: T8300/4GB/160GB Seagate 7200.2/Vista business 32bit. On startup ...

After having acknowledged there's recently been a massive surge in the number of hard disk failures across its desktop Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22 and Barracuda ES.2 SATA drive families (with the ...

Back in 2018, I had this idea to build an emulator for HDD or SSD firmware so I can hunt for security vulnerabilities via fuzzing. There was barely any research or articles on firmware fuzzing back in ...

That new MacBook Pro's 7200 RPM HDD singing you too many ballads lately? As promised, Apple today released a new firmware update to silence that troublemaker. If it doesn't come up through automatic ...

Seagate announced the detection and fixing of firmware issues concerning some of its wireless hard drives. Three hard drives containing the firmware versions 2.2.0.005 and 2.3.0.014, from Oct. 2014, ...

It was just over twelve hours ago now when I reported that the NSA has reportedly got an all-seeing eye within the firmware of hard drives made by the biggest storage giants on the market. Well, this ...

Abstract: The hard disk drive is a commonly used storage media in computer systems. Computer users usually put a vast range of data of personal or commercial significance in the hard disks. If these ...

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 activated as ...

#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 ...