Secure Boot has been a core part of PC motherboards for more than a decade -- MSI needed to be reminded of that. A security researcher recently discovered that MSI has released more than 300 ...

Firmware security research company Binarly has discovered four new vulnerabilities affecting the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) on multiple Gigabyte motherboards. The vulnerabilities ...

Among the requirements for installing Windows 11 are two security features: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 and Secure Boot. As we’ve documented before ...

The Secure Boot feature on as many as 300 MSI motherboards reportedly doesn't work as you might expect—or as the feature is intended. Specifically, the motherboards will allow unvalidated firmware and ...

One of the major security features Microsoft made mandatory as a system requirement for Windows 11 was Secure Boot. The idea behind Secure Boot is to prevent malicious software from loading when a ...

Motherboard maker MSI might have accidently disabled some secure boot features on more than 290 MSI motherboards. The changes will allow any operating system image to run regardless of whether it has ...

Eh, I don't think MSI made an unreasonable choice for their target market. It would be much less defensible if an OEM selling prebuilt PCs did the same. It would be nice if there was some kind of ...

Why it matters: Secure Boot is a technology designed to protect the PC boot chain and avoid running a tampered operating system. A firmware update released by MSI, however, changed the feature ...

Crack open your desktop PC for a second. No rush, I’ll wait. Are you looking in there? Good. Do you see a Gigabyte motherboard? Okay, now peek under the CPU cooler. I’ll wait again. Okay, see that CPU ...

If you use an add-on TPM module ($25ish), rather than using the chip's built-in emulator, I don't think you lose your Bitlocker key when you do a BIOS update. You just have to remember to switch the ...