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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Lab discovered stealthy, sophisticated and scary Equation group cyber-espionage attacks such as infecting hard drive firmware with "invisible and persistent" malware that cannot be ...

Malware 'Moon Bounce' was found that infects the motherboard directly and invalidates the countermeasures such as OS reinstallation and HDD / SSD replacement. According to Russian internet security ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a firmware update issued on Thursday, Apple addressed a few minor problems with its newest 802.11ac AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule base stations, including a problem with USB hard drive ...