Earlier this week I realized that there had recently been a new release of PCLinuxOS. It was not as easy or obvious as you might think to notice this, because there was no release announcement that I ...

The following are the highlights — and lowlights — of my adventures over the past 36 hours or so with the new Compaq 15 laptop which I picked up recently, Windows 8.1 and UEFI BIOS/boot. I started ...

"When these images are parsed during boot, the vulnerability can be triggered and an attacker-controlled payload can arbitrarily be executed to hijack the execution flow and bypass security features ...

When using UEFI, at some point, if you receive an error screen saying — Selected boot image did not authenticate, then it means UEFI is having a problem figuring ...

Security company Binarly has announced an exploit called LogoFAIL that attacks 24 vulnerabilities found in UEFI related to booting devices running Windows or Linux. The 'Logo' in LogoFAIL comes from ...

When installing a fresh copy of Windows 10, you typically use a USB flash drive to launch the "Windows Setup" wizard to continue with the installation process. However, on a device that has a Unified ...

Here’s Microsoft’s plan: Every new PC sold with Windows 8 will be locked up tight with Microsoft’s UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) secure boot on. Microsoft says that this is to help ...

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, on the VirusTotal sample sharing platform. It is a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware, adding the capability of compromising UEFI-based systems ...

The ICWG chair of the UEFI Forum debunks and clarifies a number of myths surrounding UEFI firmware—a foundational layer in the software stack. This file type includes high-resolution graphics and ...