ESET finds bug in a UEFI application allowing malicious actors to bypass UEFI Secure Boot The move grants criminals the ability to deploy bootkits to affected systems Microsoft addressed the bug ...

Speaking of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft seemingly enabled native UEFI and Secure Boot recently on Windows 7. UEFI Secure Boot was something the Redmond company had introduced with Windows 8.

For some reason the UEFI firmware is often being advocated by telling actual lies about both UEFI and BIOS, which is supposedly meant to be completely replaced by UEFI. Although these lies are ...

So, in short, your PC will need to be running in full UEFI mode, and not a legacy compatibility mode (known as CSM or ...

A new UEFI vulnerability has been discovered that is spread through multiple system recovery tools. Bleeping Computer reports that the vulnerability enables attackers to bypass Secure Boot and ...

check out the latest ESET Research blogpost “Under the cloak of UEFI Secure Boot: Introducing CVE-2024-7344” on WeLiveSecurity.com. Make sure to follow ESET Research on Twitter (today known ...

DBX is the forbidden signatures database, a database of signatures that are forbidden from running during the boot process, and is a part of the UEFI secure boot. Event ID 1798 does not harm your PC.

The most common reason why Legacy Boot is greyed out or why you are not able to switch from UEFI to Legacy is Secure Boot. Secure Boot is one of the features of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware ...

AMD has made one of the minimum system requirements of Windows 11 a necessity for its latest generation of graphics cards.

BlackLotus is a UEFI bootkit that can bypass Secure Boot and gain control over the operating system's boot process. Once in control, BlackLotus can disable Windows security features, such as ...

Because Intel is the one who started EFI and later turned it into UEFI, much of the design is built around how Intel processors boot up. Other platforms like ARM might not do much in the SEC or ...