It seems like there are two camps, the small group of people who care about UEFI and everyone else who doesn’t really notice or care as long as their computer works. So let’s talk about what UEFI is, ...

Wow, do I have mixed feelings about Caine Linux. First and foremost, it is a Linux-based forensic analysis system which is UEFI-compatible. However, while it is reasonably easy to boot as a Live DVD ...

Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of ...

It has been some time since I have written about installing Linux on systems with UEFI firmware, and I have recently gotten several questions about how to do this. So I think this is a good time for a ...

Researchers have seen a worrying development recently in TrickBot, a botnet that serves as an access gateway into enterprise networks for sophisticated ransomware and other cybercriminal groups. A new ...

What do you call the BIOS on your system? The BIOS? UEFI? Unified Extensible Firmware Interface doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, so I'm willing to bet that, like me and millions of other computer ...

Two research groups demonstrate PC firmware vulnerabilities that are difficult to mitigate and likely to be exploited in the wild. Two teams of researchers have revealed vulnerabilities this week in ...

Firmware-based rootkits, though still relatively rare, are gaining in popularity because they give threat actors a way to maintain a persistent, hard-to-detect, and difficult-to-eradicate presence on ...

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, on the VirusTotal sample sharing platform. It is a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware, adding the capability of compromising UEFI-based systems ...