Microsoft’s Secure Boot plans for Windows 8 stirred up quite a hornet’s nest of controversy in the Linux world last fall, and recently that debate has started up again. Part of the controversy this ...

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 the past, Microsoft has repeatedly pointed out that key security certificates in Windows 11 are due to expire as early as ...

The Linux Foundation today released technical guidance to PC makers on how to implement secure UEFI without locking Linux or other free software off of new Windows 8 machines. The guidance included a ...

The genuine attack surface secure boot helps with is miniscule but the fact of it having any legitimate use at all is pure gold. Making people buy whole computers to use Linux is tremendous. If only ...