However, attackers nevertheless found a way. Secure Boot was defeated to inject boot-level payloads by exploiting a vulnerability that Microsoft patched back in Jan. 2022, namely CVE-2022-21894.

The second publicly available Secure Boot exploit was discovered by researcher Zack Didcott. As he reported earlier this month, CVE-2025-47827 stems from IGEL, a Linux kernel module for handling ...

Secure Boot is a feature of your PC's UEFI that only allows approved operating systems to boot up. It's a security tool that prevents malware from taking over your PC at boot time. While it's not ...

Secure Boot is busted on hundreds of PCs from Dell, Acer, Intel, and others One of the pillars of modern PC security is looking pretty shaky after a cryptographic key was leaked on GitHub.

The Secure Boot protocol is a PC industry standard that ensures only trusted software is able to run during startup, in theory protecting UEFI-based devices during the boot process.

Tails, an OS recommended by Edward Snowden, is now capable of booting on systems where UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. Written by Catalin Cimpanu, Contributor April 8, 2020 at 12:57 a.m. PT ...

The Linux Foundation Secure Boot System solves a fundamental problem for many Linux distributions, by providing a way for a Linux-based OS to run on new hardware controlled by UEFI firmware, also ...