ESET researchers uncover 'Bootkitty', a first-of-its-kind UEFI bootkit for Linux Bootkitty seems to be ... the system from its earliest stages of boot, often used for espionage, surveillance ...

The Linux community ... boot devices and updating the firmware on your machine. UEFI uses GUID Partition Table (GPT) over Master Boot Record (MBR) — considerd a plus as MBR is somewhat inflexible.

For the past seven months—and likely longer—an industry-wide standard that protects Windows devices from firmware infections ...

Grub 2 is the boot loader for most Linux distros, Systemd-boot is a fast alternative. Kernel images made bootable via EFI can ...

the latter is used by Microsoft to sign UEFI boot software developed by third parties, which includes Linux shims, various specialized recovery, backup, disk encryption, or maintenance software ...

Security researchers have uncovered known firmware flaws in three Palo Alto enterprise firewall devices built on commodity ...

I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky ...

It lets computers load unsigned UEFI programs when they start up, no matter if Secure Boot is on or off ... access on Windows or root access on Linux. To address this vulnerability: Apply the ...

A new UEFI Secure Boot bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-7344 that affects a Microsoft-signed application could be exploited to deploy bootkits even if Secure Boot protection is active.

The vulnerability (CVE-2024-7344) allowed bad actors to sneak malicious code onto devices in a way that could bypass many of Windows 11's built-in security defenses. It ...