My recent series of posts concerning UEFI and Secure Boot technology has drawn several comments and questions about the possibility of installing only Linux on such a system. I have just had to ...

An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was ...

ESET researchers discovered 11 old, Microsoft-signed, UEFI applications that allow bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on the majority of UEFI-based systems. An attacker exploiting one of these vulnerable ...

We all know that Windows 8 PCs will come locked up tight Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) secure boot on. This will prevent you from easily installing Linux or any other ...

Some signed third-party bootloaders for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) could allow attackers to execute unauthorized code in an early stage of the boot process, before the operating ...

A recently patched security vulnerability in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems could allow attackers to bypass Secure Boot protections and compromise system safety during the boot ...

The vulnerabilities were introduced when Lenovo inadvertently included an early development driver in the commercial versions of their software. Lenovo has released fixes for high-severity bios ...

With the increasing prevalence of open-source implementations and the expansion of personal computing device usage to include mobile and non-PC devices as well as traditional desktops and laptops, ...

ESET researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that, if exploited, would allow bad actors to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot and deploy malicious UEFI bootkits such as Bootkitty or BlackLotus on ...

The extended support updates (ESU) on Windows 7 ends today. Interestingly and rather bizarrely, Microsoft enabled native UEFI and Secure Boot. However, the new feature support is not without flaws.

Battlefield 6 launch day has finally arrived, and many PC gamers will soon find out that Secure Boot must be enabled in Windows 10 or Windows 11 before playing. Secure Boot is designed to keep your PC ...