Secure your digital life across multiple devices
There was a time, not that long ago, when the vast majority of our digital lives were experienced through a single device, usually a PC. These days, that’s no longer the case, as our phones…
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Secure your digital life across all your Apple devices
One of the things most of us love best about being in the Apple ecosystem is how easily we can move between our devices with our data always available. No matter if we’re on our…
Still don’t have updated Windows Secure Boot certificates? Don’t panic
We’re now heading into August and the issue of updated Secure Boot certificates still hasn’t been resolved for all Windows users. The June 24th “Secure Boot” update, which was released just in time for the…
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Further complicating the process, even the expiration of the Microsoft certificate that signed the shims, which took place late last month, isn’t enough to revoke the ones ESET identified. A rogue’s gallery of defective shims…
Secure Boot certificate updates are broken on some PCs, Microsoft confirms
On June 24th, several older Microsoft certificates expired, meaning that many Windows 10 and 11 users need to update their computers. Without properly updated certificates, Windows Secure Boot will stop working and can no longer guarantee…
What is Windows Secure Boot? Here’s what to know
Most people don’t spend time thinking about Secure Boot. (Not even the staff at PCWorld.) But this Windows security feature provides a vital protection against dangerous malware—one some PCs have just lost. So what is…
Windows updated Secure Boot just in time. Here’s what happened
Microsoft just pushed the Secure Boot 2023 certificate update to all eligible Windows 11 and Windows 10 computers, just in time given that old certificates were due to expire today. It’s a good thing, too,…
Windows Secure Boot certificates expire tomorrow. Don’t ignore this deadline
On June 24th—that’s tomorrow, as of this writing—Windows users will run into an important deadline: new Secure Boot certificates must be installed on all systems that use Secure Boot, the security feature that protects against…
Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near
In 2012, a new form of bootkit was demonstrated. Instead of targeting machines through the BIOS or master boot record, one such bootkit attacked Mac OS X systems by infecting the EFI, a package of…
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