Hundreds of UEFI products from 10 vendors are susceptible to compromise due to a critical firmware supply-chain issue known as PKfail, which allows attackers to bypass Secure Boot and install malware.

Microsoft and Linux systems need immediate updating to revoke permissions for a vulnerable driver that attackers could abuse to install a UEFI bootkit. (Image: Shutterstock) Microsoft has patched a ...

Security researchers have disclosed a new Secure Boot bypass tracked as CVE-2025-3052 that can be used to turn off security on PCs and servers and install bootkit malware. The flaw affects nearly ...

Linux has a new Secure Boot problem. But it's not nearly as bad as some people make out. Here's what you can do to address the issue. Back in the late 2000s, computer firmware was moving from legacy ...

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 ...

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 identified 11 Microsoft-signed legacy UEFI shim bootloaders with a vulnerability that enables attackers to bypass Secure Boot and install bootkits. (Image: Shutterstock) Some Microsoft-signed ...