Five years after the Equation Group HDD hacks, firmware security still sucks Device manufacturers are not forcing driver signatures at all times. Written by Catalin Cimpanu, Contributor ...

A Kaspersky Lab bulletin indicates a cyberattack group has the capability to infect hard drive firmware. Learn how this capability works, and what it means for your deployed systems.

There is also a current bug in the firmware update which disconnects the HDD upon returning from rest mode and giving you the process of repairing the hard drive just because you didn’t ...

Apple has released a hard-drive firmware update for 2010 iMac models that addresses problems with the systems not booting correctly.

Reason for Apple hard drive firmware updatesThere 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 ...

Description: The firmware of the vulnerable hard drive has Telnet services that can be reached by using factory credentials of 'root' as username and the default password.

It looks like Western Digital and Seagate are just agents of the NSA, with spying backdoors installed into their HDDs firmware according to Kaspersky.

The scenario that Sprite_tm envisions was made possible by WD's firmware upgrade tool for DOS and idle3-tools , a group of tools for HDD made by WD using the Linux SCSI driver.

However, a statement from the mass HDD manufacturer suggests it's highly unlikely this particular issue will cause data loss, but should that have been the case, Seagate says it will provide a ...

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 ...