Passwords that make up part of the security system for computer equipment used in Colorado elections were published in a spreadsheet on the Secretary of State’s website. The posting of the “BIOS” ...

My GF's dad has a bunch of old IBM notebooks and a couple of them have startup BIOS passwords. He called IBM and they said that you could not get rid of them and that he would have to buy new MBs for ...

Even though state officials said the inadvertent leak of certain passwords for an unknown number of county election computers didn’t pose a threat to ballot tabulation, the Colorado Secretary of State ...

The Colorado Republican Party isn’t buying an explanation from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, as to why “partial passwords” to certain election equipment in an unknown number ...

On desktop motherboards, there is usually a jumper that you can short which will clear the bios custom settings (or sometimes even a very specific clear password jumper header). If you can find that, ...

In the olden days, an administrator password on a BIOS was a mere annoyance, one quickly remedied by powering off the system and pulling its CMOS battery or moving a jumper around. These days, you’re ...

We lock down our user accounts with passwords. But the BIOS often gets left unguarded. This vulnerability allows anyone with physical access to your PC to tamper with critical system settings. This ...

The news that the Colorado Secretary of State’s office inadvertently included BIOS passwords for the state’s voting machines in a hidden tab on a spreadsheet on the department’s website has election ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado’s Republican party accused the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office of “quietly” removing a publicly accessible spreadsheet from the office’s website that “contained BIOS ...

Many PC models from top brands have faced security breaches due to a weak BIOS password. Researchers from Binarly (thanks Ars Technica), a security firm, revealed that the Secure Boot system, which ...