• Is Secure Boot important for security?

    Posted on May 22, 2023 at 02:42 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    ON SECURITY

    Susan Bradley

    By Susan Bradley

    During the last few months, some chinks have appeared in Secure Boot’s armor as the result of various attacks and vulnerabilities.

    Let’s go back in history and understand how we got here.

    When a computer boots up, and before the operating system is launched, other code runs. For many years, that was the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) pioneered by IBM in the original IBM PC. Unfortunately, inventive attackers found ways to permanently install malicious code as part of this launch sequence.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.21.0, 2023-05-22).

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