Windows 8 PCs will come with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot. This "feature" will make it much harder to boot Linux or other operating systems. Canonical, Ubuntu ...

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...

If you're trying to apply this month's Black Tuesday patches to UEFI systems or 'gen 2' VMs, watch out for glitches If you admins are running “gen 2” Hyper-V VMs ...

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 ...

The folks at the Linux Foundation have come up with a way to make sure that you’ll be able to install an open source operating system on most computers that ship with Windows 8. Up until now, it’s ...

There's a surprising amount of code running before the OS even loads.

A vulnerability in trusted system recovery programs could allow privileged attackers to inject malware directly into the system startup process in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) devices.

Lenovo has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities impacting various ThinkBook, IdeaPad, and Yoga laptop models that could allow an attacker to deactivate UEFI Secure Boot. UEFI Secure Boot is a ...

Two different vulnerabilities in various UEFI BIOS versions from several providers allow the SecureBoot mechanism to be bypassed. Attackers can even replace the firmware in UEFI BIOSes from Insyde.

Microsoft has recently begun replacing expiring Secure Boot certificates on eligible Windows 11 systems running 24H2 and 25H2 ...

Follow these suggestions to fix the problem of not being able to boot into Windows after disabling the CSM. To run your PC without any trouble after disabling CSM, you need to ensure that you are ...