NetBSD 11.0 arrives with the first stable 64-bit RISC-V port in BSD history and a MICROVM kernel that boots virtual machines ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 11 old, Microsoft-signed, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) applications that could be abused to bypass Secure Boot on most systems using the ...

There’s a classic bootstrapping paradox in provisioning. To install an OS, you need something already running on that machine. Historically, it was an image on CD or USB, which scales badly already if ...

Last month, cybersecurity research firm Paradigm Shift published details about a boot ROM vulnerability affecting Apple's A12 ...

I broke my mobile phone when I was a child—a story about how that led to the concept of "debugging" and the foundation of my development skills. Before I even knew the word "development," I had ...

Zapscape , a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk ...

By default the board is configured to boot from eMMC. On power-on, the Boot ROM code (BL0) jumps to the beginning of eMMC boot partition 0 (mmc0boot0) where BL1 must reside. The boot flow then ...