Motherboard maker MSI might have accidently disabled some secure boot features on more than 290 MSI motherboards. The changes will allow any operating system image to run regardless of whether it has ...

Secure Boot is an industry standard for ensuring that Windows devices don’t load malicious firmware or software during the startup process. If you have it turned on—as you should in most cases, and it ...

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Among the requirements for installing Windows 11 are two security features: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 and Secure Boot. As we’ve documented before ...

MSI accidentally disabled Secure Boot on hundreds of its motherboards. Secure Boot is a security feature that helps protect against malicious software by ensuring that only software with a valid ...

One of the major security features Microsoft made mandatory as a system requirement for Windows 11 was Secure Boot. The idea behind Secure Boot is to prevent malicious software from loading when a ...

The latest firmware update for MSI motherboards broke a major security feature, putting countless computers at risk of malware and other threats, a security expert has claimed. Researcher Dawid ...

Why it matters: Secure Boot is a technology designed to protect the PC boot chain and avoid running a tampered operating system. A firmware update released by MSI, however, changed the feature ...

Secure Boot has been a core part of PC motherboards for more than a decade -- MSI needed to be reminded of that. A security researcher recently discovered that MSI has released more than 300 ...

If you use an add-on TPM module ($25ish), rather than using the chip's built-in emulator, I don't think you lose your Bitlocker key when you do a BIOS update. You just have to remember to switch the ...