Boot Windows in Under Ten Seconds
How long does your Windows PC take to boot? Two to three minutes is about average, under two minutes and you are doing really well, one minute or less and it’s either only a couple of days old or you’ve been doing some serious tweaking. So how about a Windows PC that boots in less than ten seconds? Well, Bios makers Phoenix Technologies reckon they can do just that. It’s called Instant Boot Bios and is based on a set of standards called UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and some fancy pre-boot footwork in Windows 7, which apparently involves carrying out around 2 million instructions. Apparently with a bit more work it may be possible to boot a PC in a second or less, which sounds great but the question that has to be asked, is when it all goes wrong – as it inevitably will — how on earth will you be able to get to the BIOS menu?
Apple Keyboard Hack Proved Possible
Slashdot reports that Apple keyboards are vulnerable to hackers’ attacks due to the complexity of their inner workings, which include RAM and flash memory. According to the report, the hack can potentially place keyloggers and malware directly into the device’s firmware.
To make matters even worse, the author of this “proof of concept†has also published the presentation and code in a PDF that’s free to download for anyone on the planet. The vuln is undoubtedly enticing to hackers, some of which are likely to create one or more exploits for the flaw in question. To better understand how this discovery has turned into a potential security issue, we offer you a few excerpts from the published document.
For ethical reasons, the ï¬rmware modiï¬cation we describe is benign. The ï¬rmware is modiï¬ed so that the LED under the CAP S LOC K key of the keyboard will flash momentarily when the keyboard is ï¬rst plugged into a system. However, malicious payloads can be developed by individuals with mal-intent. Read more
How to update the firmware of your Nokia mobile phone?
Got a Nokia mobile phone? It’s important that you update the mobile phone’s firmware once in a while. Firmware is actually the software that keeps things on your Nokia mobile phone running.
There are a lot of benefits of upgrading your phone’s firmware. You may get functional enhancements, bug fixes etc. Some issues that you might be having with your phone can be solved with a firmware upgrade.
Updating Nokia Mobile Phone Firmware:
Updating the firmware on the Nokia phone is very easy, we only need 3 things, the internet connection, Nokia PC Suite and Nokia Software Updater. There are steps that you can do to update the firmware on your Nokia phone. Read more
