Although it hasn't been seen in the wild yet A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...

That's good advice, and I'm happy to follow it. If all we do is sit around and moan about dual-booting Linux on UEFI systems, it really is likely to discourage some people from trying it, and the ...

HybridPetya ransomware exploits CVE-2024-7344 to bypass UEFI Secure Boot, encrypts NTFS MFT, and demands $1,000 Bitcoin ...

The vulnerabilities were introduced when Lenovo inadvertently included an early development driver in the commercial versions of their software. Lenovo has released fixes for high-severity bios ...

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 ...

The settings that appeared were Storage Boot Option set to Legacy and Other PCI Devices set to UEFI. I left them like that. It booted to Windows. I changed Storage Boot Option to UEFI. It booted to ...

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware that adds the capability of ...

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 ...