Cisco Systems’ Talos team has developed an open-source tool that can protect the master boot record of Windows computers from modification by ransomware and other malicious attacks. The tool, called ...

Attackers are developing an aggressive new ransomware program for Windows machines that encrypts user files as well as the computer’s master boot record (MBR), leaving devices unable to load the OS.

For a brief moment in the late ’00s, netbooks dominated the low-cost mobile computing market. These were small, low-cost, low-power laptops, some tiny enough to only have a seven-inch display, and ...

Microsoft is warning of destructive data-wiping malware disguised as ransomware being used in attacks against multiple organizations in Ukraine. A new sample of Shamoon disk-wiping malware was ...

Italian computer metal outfit Master Boot Record are coming out to the U.S. next spring, bringing their metal instrumentals meets retro video game soundscape to our part of the globe. Having just ...

A friend of mine asked me to fix his USB flash drive. It's an HP 4GB drive. My notebook is running Windows 7 64-bit. When I connected the drive to my computer, Windows installed the drivers but it ...

Attackers are developing an aggressive new ransomware program for Windows machines that encrypts user files as well as the computer’s master boot record (MBR), leaving devices unable to load the OS.

Cisco Systems’ Talos team has developed an open-source tool that can protect the master boot record of Windows computers from modification by ransomware and other malicious attacks. The tool, called ...

I have a Vaio PCG-N505VE. It does not have a CD drive. After a failed attempt of installing Fedora on it, I now wish to put Win2K on. <BR>I pulled the HD and put it in an external exclosure. I then ...

The first sector on the hard disk, which contains a tiny program and the disk's partition table. When the program is executed, it determines which partition contains the active operating system and ...