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 ...

Microsoft has confirmed the August 2024 Windows security updates are causing Linux booting issues on dual-boot systems with Secure Boot enabled. The issue is caused by a Secure Boot Advanced Targeting ...

I always get a bit jittery whenever I hear of a new vulnerability that can enable a bypass of the Windows Secure Boot protections. I don’t really need to explain why, do I? Suffice to say, Secure Boot ...

Microsoft has finally fixed a nine-month old bug that would not let Windows 11 PCs dual boot with Linux. It is known that Patch Tuesday updates can often lead to big issues and something just like ...

Windows will now tell you if Secure Boot is working properly. The new status indicates whether you have the latest Secure Boot updates. The April Windows update also patches a whopping 164 security ...

Microsoft has started automatically replacing expiring Secure Boot certificates on eligible Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 systems. Secure Boot is a security feature that blocks malicious software (like ...

Microsoft is installing Secure Boot Update Certificates on users’ computers through Windows Updates. There are multiple ways to check the Secure Boot Certificate Update status. These include running a ...

Researchers recently discovered 11 vulnerable but still trusted UEFI shim bootloaders that attackers could have used to bypass Secure Boot on systems that trust Microsoft's third-party UEFI signing ...

The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before ...