Kaspersky has some damning claims against HDD giants Seagate and Western Digital, where it has said that the NSA has spying backdoors installed onto the HDD firmware of the leading HDD manufacturers ...

In a report published today, Eclypsium, a cyber-security firm specialized in firmware security, says that the issue of unsigned firmware is still a widespread problem among device and peripheral ...

<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 ...

One of the most shocking parts of the recently discovered spying network Equation Group is its mysterious module designed to reprogram or reflash a computer hard drive's firmware with malicious code.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...