Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI ...

A boot sequence describes the initial set of operations performed by a device at the start of the boot process. During this stage, available resources reside in some form of local, nonvolatile storage ...

TL;DR Introduction  It’s more common than you might think to miss built-in defences. Windows has a lot of features that help ...

c't has reported several times on the current security problems surrounding UEFI Secure Boot. Microsoft's multiple changes to the plan have led to many questions. Here we answer some of the most ...

As our reliance on technology grows, so does the need for robust security measures that protect systems from unauthorized access and malicious attacks. One critical area of focus is the system's boot ...

Microsoft’s Secure Boot plans for Windows 8 stirred up quite a hornet’s nest of controversy in the Linux world last fall, and recently that debate has started up again. Part of the controversy this ...

Over 20 years ago, I learned to program in C without risking buffer overflows. It's not hard - after all, I learned how to do it. Incompetence in programmers is not, in my opinion, a reason to discard ...

The Windows 8 Secure Boot mechanism can be bypassed on PCs from certain manufacturers because of oversights in how those vendors implemented the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) ...

As Windows 8 gets closer to reality, more details of Microsoft’s make-it-or-break-it effort to translate its desktop computing success to ARM-driven tablets are emerging. First, Microsoft revealed ...

Apart from the frequent PC crashing issues, Battlefield 6 is also facing an error where the game is not launching and showing the following error message: “Secure ...