Some of the worst hacks exploit unpatched firmware.

Don't willingly skip performance, stability, and security updates for your PC ...

My understanding was that a CPU microcode update is stored in non-volatile memory on the motherboard and is loaded by the BIOS or UEFI into volatile memory on the CPU during boot. And because the ...

Performance keeps on improving in games with Ryzen, that would be the generic message AMD is evangelizing in a new Blog post. It seems that AMD has made good progress on the software side of things.

In early 2018, the Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities required Technology Support Services to update BIOS firmware on our campus Dell computers. Since then, there have been multiple variants of the ...

Alex Matrosov, a security researcher for Cylance, has discovered several flaws in how some motherboard vendors implemented Intel's UEFI BIOS firmware into their products. These flaws allow an attacker ...

Intel issued a security bulletin addressing sixteen newly discovered BIOS vulnerabilities that allow attackers to bypass the operating system and its associated security measures. These flaws affect ...

It's always a good idea to make sure your hardware firmware and BIOS is updated prior to a major undertaking such as upgrading a server for hypervisor work. Besides, it's not that hard to do in the ...

Short for the Basic Input and Output System, the BIOS is essentially a chip on your PC's motherboard that initializes all other components when the PC starts up, like the GPU, CPU, RAM, and others.

The Unified EFI Forum is a trade group that includes Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and ARM. The goal? To develop and implement UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The specification replaces BIOS ...