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Microsoft's Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026, but older PCs may never get the fix
Make sure you've updated before the deadline.
Microsoft has recently begun replacing expiring Secure Boot certificates on eligible Windows 11 systems running 24H2 and 25H2, according to a report by BleepingComputer. Update: As of March 9th, ...
Microsoft is rolling out "Secure Boot Allowed Key Exchange Key (KEK) Update," which requires a system reboot to finish ...
In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.
Microsoft confirms systems without updated Secure Boot certificates will boot normally but lose some security protections.
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 ...
Do you see Event ID 1796 in your Windows 11/10/Server logs? If the Secure update process cannot complete and fails with an error message— The Secure Boot update ...
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