In this in-depth ASRock UEFI BIOS Overview, we guide you through the essentials of navigating and optimizing your ASRock ...

Sure, UEFI Secure Boot stands in the way of UEFI bootkits, but there are a non-negligible number of known vulnerabilities that allow bypassing this essential security mechanism.

If you're wondering what your computer's BIOS or UEFI is, and whether or not you need to update it, you've come to the right place. I'll explain what these terms mean, what these pieces of ...

The successor to the long-known BIOS system, dubbed UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), serves as your motherboard firmware on every newer computer. Even though most people still call it ...

Understanding your UEFI is important so you can understand how (and if) to take advantage of the feature updates and bug fixes that come with the BIOS updates offered by motherboard manufacturers.

However, no UEFI rootkit has ever been detected in the wild – until we discovered a campaign by the Sednit APT group that successfully deployed a malicious UEFI module on a victim’s system.

A new UEFI Secure Boot bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-7344 that affects a Microsoft-signed application could be exploited to deploy bootkits even if Secure Boot protection is active.

Usually, all Windows does on UEFI systems is choose its own entry on the ESP for booting automatically (if it all). I’ve never heard of it touching the other EFI boot entries.

UEFI drivers are essentially a bridge needed in the early stages of a computer’s start-up routine until the OS takes over and starts communicating directly to the initialized hardware components.

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 ...

In this detailed overview, we'll explore the ASRock X99 WS UEFI BIOS, providing you with comprehensive insights into its ...