This was my thought process until a few weeks ago, when I was messing around in my BIOS and had to clear the CMOS. After ...

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in ...

In ever-changing field environments, conditions can shift rapidly, eroding the best-laid plans with little time to react.

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

Abstract: Hardware supply-chain attacks are raising significant security threats to the boot process of multiprocessor systems. In this paper, we investigate critical stages of the multiprocessor ...

Microsoft has issued an advisory alerting Windows users and IT admins that older Secure Boot certificates introduced in 2011 will begin to expire in June 2026. These Secure Boot certificates maintain ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya that resembles the notorious Petya/NotPetya malware, while also incorporating the ability to bypass the Secure Boot ...

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 ...

If you've been trying to access the Battlefield 6 open beta and can't make it past an error screen, it's probably down to Secure Boot. A security feature on Window ...