Annemarije de Boer is a Los Angeles-based director and visual storyteller specializing in technology reviews and digital innovation journalism. Drawing from her BA in Psychology and decades of ...

Forecasts may not call for boots just yet, but now is the best time to buy them. New arrivals from popular labels like Staud, Loeffler Randall, Larroudé, and Sézane can help transition summer dresses, ...

Researchers recently discovered 11 vulnerable but still trusted UEFI shim bootloaders that attackers could have used to bypass Secure Boot on systems that trust Microsoft's third-party UEFI signing ...

An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was ...

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 ...

Back in the late 2000s, computer firmware was moving from legacy BIOS to UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Alongside it came Secure Boot. This Microsoft-supported security mechanism ...

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 ...

The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before ...

Microsoft’s legacy Secure Boot signing certificate is nearing expiration, initiating an important transition that impacts the wider Linux ecosystem. The Microsoft UEFI Certificate Authority from 2011, ...

iOS 27 introduces a new device recovery mode. This is a Mac-like recovery feature where the iPhone is able to boot into an alternative UI that doesn’t involve loading the entirety of the main ...

The big picture: The Secure Boot certificates Microsoft originally issued in 2011 for Windows devices are set to expire next month. The company is currently rolling out new Secure Boot keys to ...