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Consider yourself lucky if you own a Dell or Alienware computer and haven't recently checked for a BIOS update.

After what seems like an eternity, a security company has dared to mention the unmentionable: the US does have advanced persistent threats or nation-state attack groups which are active.

Users on some Lenovo forums say that two laptop models made by the company have the BIOS locked so that one cannot run anything other than the pre-installed Windows on them.

“We are not happy at the almost impossible to remove software disguised as the Lenovo Service Engine (LSE),” say Lenovo owners. It has been happening on all machines manufactured from October 2014 to April 2015.

Announced as part of a raft of security-related products and services, HP SureStart is a self-healing BIOS technology for certain of the company's PCs.

Security researchers warn that the firmware in PCs and routers could be subverted for nefarious purposes.

Charlie Miller, a well-known security researcher in the Apple space, has found that your MacBook battery may-well be out to get you (if you don't get it first).