Hard drive firmware is about the last place you want to find a bug. But that turned out to be the problem with [BBfoto’s] Seagate HDD which he was using in a RAID array. It stopped working completely, ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to anti-virus maker Kaspersky, we could all be at risk of being spied on by a hacker group called Equation Group, a rogue element in the computer industry that has been responsible for a few ...