As the major software vendors have worked diligently over the past decade to harden their operating systems, and critical flaws have become much harder to uncover, many hackers have been pursuing ...

Retro gaming is huge right now, and like probably millions of other people, [wrongbaud] found himself taking possession of a couple faux-classic gaming gadgets over the holidays. But unlike most ...

[Daljeet Nandha] from [RoboCoffee] writes to us, sharing his research on cryptographic signature-based firmware authenticity checks recently added to the Xiaomi Mi scooter firmware. Those scooters use ...

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 ...

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...

The geopolitical landscape is increasingly fractured, and corporations are being sucked into the vortex. Senior executives aren’t just facing down threats from uncoordinated criminals – they’re ...

The Flipper Zero is growing up: Firmware 1.0 for the popular digital gadget has been released and brings many new functions as well as a significantly longer battery life. In particular, the new built ...

With the onslaught of embedded devices hitting the streets, we see such devices with the operating system, hardware interfaces, and user-facing applications baked into a single blob called firmware.

After three years of development, the Flipper Zero team has announced the release of the first major firmware version for the portable, customizable hacking device. At a glance, the first stable major ...

That picture above is no joke -- that's where I ended up last night trying to revive my Droid X review unit. It was fun, in a hacky mad-scientist sort of way, but it's also really sad -- a testament ...

The folks over at Nikon Hacker have been working on a new project which will allow Nikon users to utilize some of the Firmware hacking abilities, of which Canon owners have already been able to take ...

So on Monday over at Hack A Day we posted a link to an iPod hack over at iPodHacks that let you extract all of the fonts and graphics from the player's firmware. Since then, a new application came out ...