The simple project was designed to interface a PIC16F877 microcontroller to the USB bus using the FTDI FT245 USB FIFO device. A single sided PCB with only one surface mount device, pertaining to the ...

An anonymous reader pinged us about an issue that affects people who jumped onto the latest-and-greatest OS from the Apple gardens: USB devices that stop working due to the FTDI-based USB solution. At ...

If you haven’t been paying attention, FTDI, makers of one of the most popular USB to UART chips out there, really screwed up last October. They released a driver to Microsoft that would brick ...

Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino microcontrollers are finding that a recent driver update that Microsoft deployed over Windows Update has bricked some of their ...

Hardware hackers and security researchers are furious at chip maker FTDI for issuing a silent update that bricks cloned FTDI FT232 [USB to UART] chips. FTDI used a recent Windows update to deliver the ...

Welcome to Zero Day's Week In Security, our roundup of notable security news items for the week ending October 24, 2014. Covers enterprise, controversies, reports and more. This week, Google released ...