Microsoft inadvertently published a Secure Boot “golden key” policy that allows for self-signed or unsigned binaries to be loaded on Windows devices. The gaffe, meant to be a legitimate debugging and ...

There were no actual software keys involved when anonymous researchers claimed that Microsoft had leaked so-called "golden keys" to the Windows secure boot protection scheme, according to an industry ...

Over the past year, there's been a raging debate over what kinds of encryption companies should use and whether they should retain the ability to crack end-user devices when ordered to do so by the ...

If you want to play the game, you'll need to play by the rules.

Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft's new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. But ...

James Bottomley, Parallels' CTO of server virtualization, well-known Linux kernel maintainer, and the man behind the Linux Foundation's efforts to create an easy way to install and boot Linux on ...

There is an oft quoted adage called "Murphy's Law" (not to be confused with Moore's Law) that, simplified, goes like this: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Well, that proverbial thing may ...

Someone at Microsoft is having one of those Southwest moments where the airlines asks, "Want to get away?" That's because someone at the Redmond outfit leaked a security key that could allow attackers ...

Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of ...

Specifically, Howells was asking "to embed an X.509 certificate containing the key in a section called '.keylist' in an EFI PE [Extensible Firmware Interface Portable Executable] binary and then get ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=31700845#p31700845:1q9fctmu said: 4nNtt[/url]":1q9fctmu]Not as bad as releasing a backdoor for a user volume, but it ...