PC World

New attacks defeat Secure Boot and brick PCs

The Secure Boot security mechanism of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) can be bypassed on around half of computers that have the feature enabled in order to install bootkits, according ...
Network World

New attack methods can ‘brick’ systems, defeat Secure Boot, researchers say

The Secure Boot security mechanism of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) can be bypassed on around half of computers that have the feature enabled in order to install bootkits, according ...
Threat Post

CERT Warns of UEFI Hardware Vulnerabilities

The CERT Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University issued three advisories today warning of serious UEFI vulnerabilities. The CERT/CC at Carnegie Mellon ...
Business Wire

New 1.8V Parts Extend Winbond’s Range of Confidential and Replay-Protected Flash Storage Products for PCs’ UEFI Variables and Sensitive BIOS Settings

TAICHUNG CITY, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Winbond Electronics Corporation, a leading global supplier of semiconductor memory solutions, today announced the introduction of new SpiFlash® Flash storage ...
Bleeping Computer

Lenovo UEFI firmware driver bugs affect over 100 laptop models

Lenovo has published a security advisory on vulnerabilities that impact its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) loaded on at least 100 of its laptop models. A total of three security issues ...