Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

Secure Boot is one of the requirements for Windows 11. You cannot install Windows 11 until you enable Secure Boot in your BIOS. However, there are ways by which you ...

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 ...

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 analyzed a previously undocumented, real-world UEFI bootkit that persists on the EFI System Partition (ESP). The bootkit, which we’ve named ESPecter, can bypass Windows Driver ...

Windows may become stuck on the Gigabyte logo during boot due to an issue with the BIOS or corrupted system files. Check this ...

Windows 8’s Secure Boot technology has been a hot topic this summer, causing no end of discussion and debate among the various Linux distributions, which are struggling to figure out the best approach ...

New malware dubbed HybridPetra spotted on VirusTotal is adding to steadily growing pile of bootkits, creating more ...

Why it matters: Discovered in October 2022, BlackLotus is a powerful UEFI-compatible bootkit sold on underground marketplaces at $5,000 per license. The malware provides impressive capabilities, and a ...

Players need to enable Secure Boot in their BIOS settings if they wish to play Battlefield 6. Kernel-level anti-cheats have become the talk of the town. What started with Valorant's Vanguard ...

ESET researchers have discovered and analyzed three vulnerabilities affecting various Lenovo consumer laptop models. The first two of these vulnerabilities – CVE-2021-3971 and CVE-2021-3972 – affect ...

Red Hat's Matthew Garrett, speaking at the Linux.conf.au 2012 (LCA) conference in Ballarat last week, also believes that Intel's UEFI reference implementation, codenamed Tiano and upon which hardware ...