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 ...

When the Linux Foundation announced that it was creating its own UEFI boot solution, it seemed that our woes about not being able to install Linux on Secure Boot systems would soon be coming to an end ...

When word hit the wire last fall that Microsoft's Windows 8 certification could prevent Linux from being installed to a PC, it caused ripples throughout the open-source community. While it's clear ...

The folks at the Linux Foundation have come up with a way to make sure that you’ll be able to install an open source operating system on most computers that ship with Windows 8. Up until now, it’s ...

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, ...

One of the largest underlying changes to Windows 8 is the long-overdue shift from BIOS to UEFI. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is superior to BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) in almost ...

Linux Australia is fit to be tied over recent reports that Microsoft is requiring Windows 8 certified machines to support UEFI secure booting, a situation that could most likely hamper or block Linux ...

Most people don’t understand UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) or even know whether their computer has it. An interface layer between an operating system and firmware, UEFI offers much ...

A recently surfaced Linux bootkit, which nests in the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and is intended to bypass its security measures, is apparently a project by South Korean scientists.

Whilst lower level exploits are always more problematic and harder to detect I'm not seeing how this is allegedly going to live through replacing the drive. Per the diagram the first exploit code is ...