ESET researchers discovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders signed by Microsoft that allow attackers to bypass UEFI ...

My recent series of posts concerning UEFI and Secure Boot technology has drawn several comments and questions about the possibility of installing only Linux on such a system. I have just had to ...

The images are known as shims, which were invented to extend Secure Boot to Linux devices and utility software. Using a ...

UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the open, multi-vendor replacement for the aging BIOS standard, which first appeared in IBM computers in 1976. The UEFI standard is extensive, covering ...

“In secure mode … the platform will only execute EFI binaries signed with a key that is whitelisted in the UEFI secure boot signature database,” Bottomley explained. The latest releases of many major ...