LAS VEGAS—Intel has done a lot of work in recent years developing technologies that improve the security of firmware that underpins modern computing systems. At the Black Hat USA security conference ...

Phoenix SecureCore Technology (Phoenix SCT) 3.0, the latest UEFI BIOS firmware from Phoenix Technologies, uses a graphical user interface to simplify once obscure BIOS settings. It uses an integrated ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

I have written a number of times recently about UEFI Boot, and how much trouble I have had getting it set up and getting it to stay the way I want it. It is important to remember that system ...

Extensible Firmware Interface, which could speed boot-up process for PCs, goes to a group that will promote and standardize it. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

If you own a PC from Dell, HP or Lenovo, chances are very good that the BIOS or UEFI firmware update you installed earlier this month is bad. Here’s how to dig ...