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.

Researchers are warning Microsoft Windows as well as many Linux distribution users to install updates that revoke permissions ...

A vulnerability in a UEFI application discovered by ESET researchers could let malicious actors deploy malicious bootkits on ...

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.

Secure Boot is built into the UEFI—short for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface—the successor to the BIOS that’s responsible for booting modern Windows and Linux devices. Last year ...

ESET researchers have discovered a vulnerability, affecting the majority of UEFI-based systems, that allows actors to bypass ...