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How many people still have a PS/2 keyboard kicking around in 2020? Admittedly asking such a question of the Hackaday audience is probably cheating (there’s a decent chance one of you will type a comment on one just to prove a point), but even the most pedantic reader has to …read more
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If message Your computer’s system firmware does not include enough information to properly…
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Are there any 2FA methods that can be used when accessing the BIOS or booting into your Hard Drive?
If not now then what about the future?
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By definition evil maid attacks involve altering a device in an undetectable way. So if I lock the BIOS, set the HDD to boot first and put a HDD password will this prevent it?
Access to the computer won’t be possible as the HDD would be th… Continue reading Can a BIOS password along with a HDD password prevent evil maid attacks?
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?
How hard would it be to hack into such a laptop?… Continue reading Is a BIOS password enough to prevent someone from hacking into my laptop if they have physical access?
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]
How can I know if a pc has a backdoor in bios, and how to know if there is an hardware malicious impairment?
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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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Since a BIOS isn’t connected to the internet, even if your BIOS is infected with a malware (say you used a usb to flash it but with files that wasn’t from the official motherboard manufacturer’s site). Is the damage limited locally to the… Continue reading Can BIOS virus/malware 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.
Let’s say I’m using windows 10, even if I go as far as downloading a m… Continue reading How can your BIOS be infected or hacked and Can a BIOS virus be used to "steal data"?