Windows has Secure Boot as a security feature to ensure only trusted software loads when you boot up your PC, combating any malware that tries load.

Microsoft has confirmed the August 2024 Windows security updates are causing Linux booting issues on dual-boot systems with Secure Boot enabled. The issue is caused by a Secure Boot Advanced Targeting ...

An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was ...

I always get a bit jittery whenever I hear of a new vulnerability that can enable a bypass of the Windows Secure Boot protections. I don’t really need to explain why, do I? Suffice to say, Secure Boot ...

A Secure Boot update wasn’t supposed to hit dual-boot machines, but it’s now preventing some Linux installs from booting. A Secure Boot update wasn’t supposed to hit dual-boot machines, but it’s now ...

Microsoft has started automatically replacing expiring Secure Boot certificates on eligible Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 systems. Secure Boot is a security feature that blocks malicious software (like ...

Microsoft rolled out a security patch that turned my reliable Ubuntu partition into a brick. In August 2024, a Windows update applying a Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) patch flagged vulnerable ...

Microsoft is installing Secure Boot Update Certificates on users’ computers through Windows Updates. There are multiple ways to check the Secure Boot Certificate Update status. These include running a ...

Facepalm: Microsoft recently released its latest batch of monthly security updates for Windows and other software products. However, a bug fix designed to address a Secure Boot vulnerability ...

On June 24th—that’s tomorrow, as of this writing—Windows users will run into an important deadline: new Secure Boot certificates must be installed on all systems that use Secure Boot, the security ...