Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system ...

Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

Over the past few days I have been installing Windows Updates on my two most recently acquired Windows 8 systems (see My New ASUS Laptop and My New Compaq Laptop). I had read several news items and ...

A newly discovered and previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit has been used by attackers to backdoor Windows systems by hijacking the Windows Boot Manager since ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

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 ...

A recently discovered ransomware strain called HybridPetya can bypass the UEFI Secure Boot feature to install a malicious ...

ESET researchers have discovered a vulnerability that allows bypassing UEFI Secure Boot, affecting the majority of UEFI-based systems. This vulnerability, assigned CVE-2024-7344, was found in a UEFI ...

When your Windows 11 system gets stuck on the Gigabyte logo during boot, it typically indicates a failure in the boot process before the operating system can fully load. This can result from hardware ...