UPDATE: November 28, 3:20 PM California time. The headline of this post has been changed. This update is adding the following further details: this threat is not a UEFI firmware implant or rootkit, it ...

This will be my last foray into UEFI firmware for quite a while. For those who are already tired of my writing about it, I apologize in advance; for those who have asked for more, here it is. For the ...

It has been some time since I have written about installing Linux on systems with UEFI firmware, and I have recently gotten several questions about how to do this. So I think this is a good time for a ...

Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered “Bootkitty,” possibly the first UEFI bootkit specifically designed to target Linux systems. This marks a significant shift in the UEFI threat landscape, which ...

ESET researchers uncover 'Bootkitty', a first-of-its-kind UEFI bootkit for Linux Bootkitty seems to be in early stages of development, but could pose a major risk Linux users warned to be on their ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

With the increasing prevalence of open-source implementations and the expansion of personal computing device usage to include mobile and non-PC devices as well as traditional desktops and laptops, ...