Researchers on Wednesday announced a major cybersecurity find—the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced ...

Acer has fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting multiple laptop models that could enable local attackers to deactivate UEFI Secure Boot on targeted systems. The Secure Boot security feature ...

UEFI game runs during boot; navigate a tunnel to hit 'Boot!' to load your OS. Touch a wall, and the PC powers off, making ...

Researchers have discovered that next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks contain years-old known vulnerabilities in their UEFI firmware — a finding that provides yet more evidence of a ...

We’re at T-minus eight months before Microsoft officially gives Windows 10 the boot. PC gamers in particular seem unready to let go of the operating system, which might start causing headaches if they ...

ESET researchers have analyzed a previously undocumented, real-world UEFI bootkit that persists on the EFI System Partition (ESP). The bootkit, which we’ve named ESPecter, can bypass Windows Driver ...

Reports coming from users who have tried to install the Windows 10 KB4524244 security update say that HP and Apple computers are experiencing system freezes and errors during installation, as well as ...

So I'm having issues accessing my bios. It's my own fault, I think i turned off Legacy USB support. In an attempt to re-enable it, I reset the Bios per the manual instructions. This seemed to reset ...

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 ...

If you receive an error message – Failure when attempting to copy boot files, then this post may be able to help you fix the problem. BCDBoot is a command-line ...

A vulnerability in the implementation of UEFI firmware has left many popular motherboards vulnerable to direct memory access (DMA) attacks, researchers have warned, with these attacks possibly ...

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 ...