Windows 8 PCs will come with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot. This "feature" will make it much harder to boot Linux or other operating systems. Canonical, Ubuntu ...

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...

The folks at the Linux Foundation have come up with a way to make sure that you’ll be able to install an open source operating system on most computers that ship with Windows 8. Up until now, it’s ...

The functionality of the bootkit and its individual features make ESET Research believe that it is a threat known as BlackLotus, a UEFI bootkit that has been sold on hacking forums for USD$5,000 since ...

A total of nine vulnerabilities were discovered in TianoCore EDK II, Intel's UEFI reference implementation. The series of vulnerabilities, collectively named ``PixieFail,'' are said to allow an ...

If the steps above fail, or your PC won't power on at all, one alternative recovery method involves transplanting your hard ...

If you're trying to apply this month's Black Tuesday patches to UEFI systems or 'gen 2' VMs, watch out for glitches If you admins are running “gen 2” Hyper-V VMs ...

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 ...

A problem with a kernel driver for Samsung laptops has caused numerous users to find their machines “bricked” after trying to boot Linux on them. That’s according to several reports on the Ubuntu ...

Two different vulnerabilities in various UEFI BIOS versions from several providers allow the SecureBoot mechanism to be bypassed. Attackers can even replace the firmware in UEFI BIOSes from Insyde.

Commercially developed FinFisher malware now can infect Windows devices using a UEFI bootkit that it injects in the Windows Boot Manager. FinFisher (also known as FinSpy and Wingbird) is a ...