One of the most shocking parts of the recently discovered spying network Equation Group is its mysterious module designed to reprogram or reflash a computer hard drive's firmware with malicious code.

Software is code. All forms of information technology intelligence are created by, built from and constructed using computer programming languages in the form of code. It therefore stands to reason ...

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, believes proprietary and unverifiable firmware code poses a serious security threat to users and he encourages hardware ...

IIIT-Hyderabad researchers are developing an automated system to detect bugs in AI-generated and concurrent software code.