BIOS
PKfail: 800+ Major PC Models have Insecure ‘Secure Boot’
Richi Jennings | | Binarly, BIOS, BIOS update, Certificate and Key Management, hardware supply chain, key management, Key Management Problem, PKfail, Private Key Management, SB Blogwatch, secure boot, UEFI, UEFI Failing, UEFI firmware, UEFI vulnerabilities, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Big BIOS bother: Hundreds of PC models from vendors such as HP, Lenovo, Dell, Intel, Acer and Gigabyte shipped with useless boot protection—using private keys that aren’t private ...
Security Boulevard
Linux Vendors Squawk: PATCH NOW — CVSS 9.8 Bootkit Bug in shim.efi
Richi Jennings | | BIOS, CVE-2023-40547, Enterprise Linux and Open Source, Linux, open source, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source code, Open Source Community, open source components, open source development, Open Source Ecosystem, SB Blogwatch, secure boot, shim, UEFI, UEFI Failing, UEFI vulnerabilities
Snow joke: A Microsoft researcher found it—and it’s somehow Microsoft’s fault ...
Security Boulevard
New Windows/Linux Firmware Attack
Interesting attack based on malicious pre-OS logo images: LogoFAIL is a constellation of two dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities that have lurked for years, if not decades, in Unified Extensible Firmware Interfaces responsible ...
LEAKED: Intel’s BIOS Source Code — All 6GB of It
Richi Jennings | | Alder Lake, BIOS, Boot Guard, GitHub, Insyde, Intel, Key Manifest, LC Future Center, Lenovo, private keys, RISC V is the open source future—not Intel, SB Blogwatch, tpm, UEFI
Source code for the Intel Alder Lake processor EUFI BIOS has gone walkies. 4chan is said to be involved ...
Security Boulevard
Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Forgotten BIOS Updates, T-Shirt Outwits Facial Recognition
Tom Eston | | AI, BIOS, Computer Updates, Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy, Elon Musk, Episodes, facial recognition, firmware, Information Security, Infosec, Lenovo, patching, PC, Podcast, Privacy, security, surveillance, technology, Twitter, Weekly Edition
Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion so what does this mean for the privacy and cybersecurity of the platform? More than 100 different Lenovo laptop computers contain firmware-level vulnerabilities which is ...
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of March 21, 2022
Dylan D'Silva | | BIOS, Bug, data, Data breach, Featured Articles, Microsoft Azure, mobile apps, Phishing, VERT News, vulnerability
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...