The images are known as shims, which were invented to extend Secure Boot to Linux devices and utility software. Using a technique simple enough to be performed by novice hackers, these old, forgotten ...

ESET researchers discovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders signed by Microsoft that allow attackers to bypass UEFI Secure Boot by exploiting decade-old vulnerabilities Following is the ...

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 ...

Why it matters: A long-standing weakness in a key PC security system stems from a simpler issue: outdated components that were never revoked. Researchers at ESET have found that a set of vulnerable ...

ESET researchers discovered 11 old, Microsoft-signed, UEFI applications that allow bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on the majority of UEFI-based ...

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As it turns out, the batch of expiring Secure Boot certificates isn't the only Secure Boot-related concern that Microsoft and the public need to worry about this year. ESET Researchers have uncovered ...

Attackers could bypass UEFI Secure Boot on a wide range of systems thanks to 11 Microsoft-signed UEFI shim bootloaders carrying vulnerabilities that have remained buried for more than a decade, ...