Updated firmware trust chains strengthen rootkit protection and zero-trust infrastructure security.

There’s been considerable concern in recent weeks over the secure boot mechanism planned for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8, primarily among Linux users and others worried that the technology will ...

Update 1/22/23: Title updated as MSI intentionally changed this setting as per statement below. Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting ...

Ever since it was first brought to light that Windows 8’s secure boot mechanism could cause problems for Linux users, speculation has been running rampant as to the exact nature of the difficulties ...

Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a ...

The Secure Boot feature on as many as 300 MSI motherboards reportedly doesn't work as you might expect—or as the feature is intended. Specifically, the motherboards will allow unvalidated firmware and ...

The developers of the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit have improved the malware with Secure Boot bypass capabilities that allow it to infect even fully patched Windows 11 systems. BlackLotus is the first ...

The group urges PC users to sign a statement demanding that manufacturers keep the door open for alternate operating systems. The secure boot mechanism planned for Microsoft’s Windows 8 has already ...

Operating system maintainers, computer manufacturers, security and virtualization software vendors have worked together over the past few months to coordinate a unified response to a vulnerability ...

I only know that secure boot is a feature that checks the system bootloader is properly signed by something/somebody authorized to do so. So it would make sense that ...