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News Kingston SSD firmware hides a Coldplay Easter egg The lyrics to 'The Scientist' might be hiding in a driver file on your PC right now By Michael Crider Staff Writer, PCWorld May 11, 2023 7:56 ...
What has firmware got to do with pop rock, you ask? That's the question that crossed a security researcher's mind as he analyzed Kingston's firmware and stumbled upon the lyrics of a popular ...
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Security researcher Nicholas Starke made a surprising discovery in a firmware update for Kingston’s KC2000 M.2 NVMe SSD products, where he found lyrics from a Coldplay song. According to ...
The new firmware which will be on the Kingston website soon for download improves things even more and gives the HyperX SSD a read speed of 555MB/s and a write speed of 510MB/s.
That said, I (being the brave soul I am) was able to successfully update my original HyperX 240GB SSD’s firmware from 5.01 to 5.03 using the firmware for the HyperX 3K.
Kingston's latest SSD features a brand new drive controller from Toshiba and as a result boasts some very impressive sequential read and write speeds. Does it have what it takes to compete with ...
Iowa-based security researcher Nicholas Starke recently made an unusual discovery within the firmware of Kingston SSDs. While conducting a research project, Starke encountered an unexpected ...
A security researcher has found Coldplay lyrics within Kingston SSD firmware. Someone at Kingston clearly loves Coldplay as security researcher Nicholas Starke discovered the lyrics to Coldplay ...