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COMPANY NEWS: Absolute Software has announced new partnerships with leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to strengthen resiliency of their endpoint applications with Absolute Application Persistence-as-a-Service (APaaS). As APaaS partners, Ericom, Utopic, and WinMagic are leveraging Absolute’s firmware-embedded technology to monitor and automatically heal their mission-critical security solutions - ensuring they remain healthy, installed, and working effectively across their customer bases.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

The BBC has questioned whether Microsoft's publication of a post claiming that firmware attacks are on the rise is a red herring to distract from the issues the company is having with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Microsoft's new security chip, announced last week, will have an impact on hardware-only attacks, an American security professional says, adding that it could also assist in firmware security, but would result in added costs.

VENDOR NEWS: If we’re to rethink data’s potential, we must also rethink the systems used to store and process it, writes Seagate.

IP surveillance vendor Genetec has updated its Firmware Vault camera firmware update service to cover a much broader range of cameras.

IP surveillance vendor Genetec has warned that more than two-thirds of security cameras may be running superseded firmware, leaving them vulnerable to attack.

American security firm CrowdStrike has announced it is integrating the ability to detect firmware attacks in its endpoint protection product Falcon, a first of sorts.

Research by security firm Eclypsium shows that vacated cloud servers are not properly wiped by hosting providers and may be used as an intrusion channel by bad actors.

AirPlay 2 on Sonos means you can do a stack of Apple-related stuff on your Sonos speakers, adding to its flexibility and giving Sonos additional ammo against Apple's own HomePod.

An issue in firmware builds for Citrix's NetScaler ADC product has led to the company removing the 10.1, 10.5, 11.0, 11.1 and 12.0 builds from its download area.

With HomePods in internal testing by Apple employees, a reportedly accidental leak of firmware destined for those test units only has revealed Apple secrets making many happy.

HTC’s flagship Android smartphone is the One M9, and it has just received a firmware update delivering ‘significant enhancements.

If you’ve got a current-model Blu-ray and DVD recorder from Panasonic that is connected to the Internet, you should have already received a free firmware update giving you HbbTV 1.5 compatibility.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has provided regular driver and firmware updates online for its HP ProLiant range of servers. As of February 2014 these are now limited to in-warranty or CarePack users only.

Cyanogen, the company behind the Android fork CyanogenMod, has announced some hardware of its own - a version of the Oppo N1 phone running Cyanoge Mod coming on Christmas Eve, to add to the 10 million devices currently running the software.

Microsoft released a firmware update for the Surface Pro 2 only a couple of weeks after its launch, and it now appears as a result the device has received a massive boost in battery life.

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

New firmware for Panasonic KX-NCP500 and TDE200/600 IP PBX systems brings increased capacity and new features. And it's free, so what's not to like?