Understanding UEFI firmware, and the Linux utilities to manage it, can save you a lot of time and trouble. X. Trending. Amazon Prime Day is July 8 - 11: Here's what you need to know; Best ...

UEFI bootkits are reportedly making their way into Linux, researchers from ESET have warned, after spotting a first-of-its-kind Linux UEFI bootkit, which seems to either be an experimental version ...

Practically all new systems have come with UEFI firmware for some time now. Here is a brief overview of the current situation with installing and using Linux on such systems.

“On Linux systems with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, kernel modules need to be signed if they are meant to be loaded,” the ESET researchers explained.

The first UEFI bootkit specifically targeting Linux systems has been discovered, marking a shift in stealthy and hard-to-remove bootkit threats that previously focused on Windows. Named 'Bootkitty ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start … ...

Found on VirusTotal: The world’s first UEFI bootkit for Linux "Bootkitty" is likely a proof-of-concept, but may portend working UEFI malware for Linux.

Bootkitty is designed to boot the Linux kernel seamlessly, whether UEFI Secure Boot is enabled or not, as it patches, in memory, the necessary functions responsible for integrity verification ...

Reduced Support Burden: Fedora does not currently test UEFI on MBR configurations. Dropping this untested and rarely used setup makes Fedora easier to test and maintain. This helps avoid confusion for ...

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Booting Linux via UEFI can ‘brick’ some Samsung laptops. Linux Line By Katherine Noyes, Jan 31, 2013 2:20 pm PST.