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 ...
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 ...
This repository contains tools for HDD firmware extraction. For more information, see the presentation slides from Recon 2014. scripts/seagate_fw_extract.py Can extract Seagate HDD firmware files ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kaspersky Labs exposed a breakthrough U.S. spying program, which taps into hard drives. According to Kaspersky, malicious software is hidden in the firmware, and launches every time a computer is ...
Earlier this year Sony announced that PS4 Users will soon be able to use their external HDD on their console for storage of saved games and applications, While Wii U and Xbox One players have already ...
We’ve been tipped off that there might be a small issue with the latest PlayStation 3 firmware, 3.56, which was pushed out to consoles yesterday. A number of users over on the EU community forums have ...
Apparently, those with upgraded hard-drives in their system were being prevented from updating to the 3.41 firmware update. It's all sorted now though, as the PlayStation Blog notes that an updated ...
The firmware went into public beta on February 3, and as previously reported, it includes external HDD support, PS VR improvements, voice chat for Remote Play and more. The features included in the ...