Mohammad Shuaib Siddique knows his way around the guts of modern computers. He’s a senior systems software architect who lives where silicon, firmware, operating systems, and networks all come ...

Operating systems are designed to work on $200 laptops and $5,000 workstations and everything that comes in between, so you ...

Riot Games is only forcing the BIOS update requirement on "Restricted" players, who seem to have PC configurations similar to ...

Riot Games has begun blocking Valorant players who have not updated their motherboard BIOS after identifying a firmware-level vulnerability that allows cheating software to bypass the game’s ...

If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look ...

If you have an Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or ASRock motherboard, you need to update the BIOS if you want to continue playing Valorant. That's because a critical flaw was recently found that allows cheaters ...

However, Asus has warned that many of its Intel motherboards are vulnerable and can allow access to system memory, which is enough to make anyone sit up and pay attention. Asus does point out on its ...

Usually, when CISA adds flaws to KEV, it means that Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies have a three-week deadline to patch up or stop using the products entirely. For the ASUS flaw, agencies ...

Microsoft has acknowledged a software defect in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that has triggered misleading security alerts on Windows 11 version 25H2. The problem incorrectly flags Dell BIOS ...

There is a security gap in the Aptios and AptiosV BIOS versions of AMI. Attackers can abuse a vulnerability in the SMM module to write data to addresses they control. This apparently also makes it ...

What just happened? Jokingly referred to as "Plug and Pray" due to its notorious unreliability, the Plug and Play standard was nonetheless a pivotal advancement in simplifying hardware and peripheral ...