Is a BIOS password enough to prevent someone from hacking into my laptop if they have physical access?

Would my laptop be secure against physical access if I set up a bios password and full disk encryption ?
If not then is there any way to secure your laptop from someone with physical access?
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Can I trust a used motherboard purchased from a seller in China? [duplicate]

The ASUS motherboard in an older PC I own failed. I purchased a replacement from a vendor on eBay, shipped from China (Shenzhen). Only after receiving the motherboard did it occur to me to wonder about the security of the motherboard, and … Continue reading Can I trust a used motherboard purchased from a seller in China? [duplicate]

Gigabytes of ‘sensitive’ internal Intel documents dumped online

Chip giant Intel is investigating the leak of what appears to be a 20 GB cache of internal documents, some of which are marked “confidential,” after it appeared on various messaging platforms and data hosting sites. An Intel spokesperson told CyberScoop that the data looks to be from the company’s Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for customers, partners and other external parties that have access. “We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data,” a spokesperson told CyberScoop. The cache, dubbed “Intel exconfidential Lake,” is mostly comprised of training manuals and other technical documents for various software and firmware development kits. However, a section marked “Intel Restricted Secret” contains data on a March 2020 version of Intel’s 2016 Kaby Lake Platforms Silicon Initialization Code, which works with Intel BIOS. A post in a Telegram channel highlighted some of the other contents in the cache: It is […]

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How can your BIOS be infected or hacked and Can a BIOS virus be used to "steal data"?

I know that BIOS can get virus but it’s very rare, but it seems to me it’s pretty impossible or improbable for a virus to creep into your BIOS via normal computer use.
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Is it safe to disable SATA ports in the BIOS to isolate the corresponding hard drives from malware?

I have three SATA hard drives that I use every day. Suppose I disable the corresponding SATA ports of these hard drives through my BIOS, add another storage device to my PC, install another instance of Windows 10 and run unsafe executables… Continue reading Is it safe to disable SATA ports in the BIOS to isolate the corresponding hard drives from malware?