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Theregister
7 months ago
Information security

BreachForums admin 'Pompourin' gets 20-year sentence

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, former administrator of BreachForums, has been sentenced to 20 years of supervised release for running a site that facilitated sales of stolen data and child sexual abuse material.
A new UEFI flaw called PixieFail has been discovered, affecting systems configured for network booting. The vulnerabilities are found in the NetworkPkg module of EDK II, used by various vendors including Arm, Insyde Software, and Microsoft. [ more ]
Ars Technica
8 months ago
Information security

New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs across an entire ecosystem scrambling

UEFI firmware from leading suppliers contains vulnerabilities that allow for malware infections at the firmware level.
The vulnerabilities, dubbed PixieFail, pose a threat to public and private data centers. [ more ]
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