We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...

If you're trying to apply this month's Black Tuesday patches to UEFI systems or 'gen 2' VMs, watch out for glitches If you admins are running “gen 2” Hyper-V VMs ...

Windows 8 PCs will come with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot. This "feature" will make it much harder to boot Linux or other operating systems. Canonical, Ubuntu ...

UEFI flaw leaves ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock motherboards exposed to DMA attacks Firmware falsely reports IOMMU protection enabled, allowing malicious PCIe devices pre‑boot access Riot Games ...

The folks at the Linux Foundation have come up with a way to make sure that you’ll be able to install an open source operating system on most computers that ship with Windows 8. Up until now, it’s ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a call to action to beef up security of a little-known but important piece of software that can be found in every computer. Called ...

Some 4 weeks after its release, the Mac Pro EFI Firmware 1.1 update continues to be inapplicable to many users' systems. We previously noted that users having problems applying the update should ...