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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.

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The gaffe is the result of the failure by Microsoft, which oversees the signing of shims, to revoke the publicly available images once vulnerabilities were found in them.

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