Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot 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, ...

To understand the transition from legacy BIOS to UEFI firmware, it’s best to begin with a review of a decades-old system—the 1983 IBM-compatible PC—and continue with a study of its successor ...

The Unified EFI Forum is a trade group that includes Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and ARM. The goal? To develop and implement UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The specification replaces BIOS ...

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Unified EFI Forum, a non-profit collaborative specification organization formed to define, promote and manage the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) ...

Even before the first personal computer appeared in 1984, BIOS technologies, which are needed to initialize hardware, test hardware functionalities and start the operating system, were already in use ...

Microsoft's Devices Team has announced the release of Project Mu, an effort to create an open-source version of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) powering the company's Surface ...

Over the past few years, the world has seen ransomware threats advance from living inside browsers to operating systems, to the bootloader, and now to the low-level firmware that powers a computer’s ...

Let's face it, UEFI, in your BIOS is a little operating system on its own, completely unprotected. Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP) is extending its protection ...

More than 20 vulnerabilities have been found affecting unified extensible firmware interfaces (UEFI) software, allowing attackers to bypass hardware security mechanisms. Security firm Binarly has ...

Every time we reboot our computers, that scrolling code takes us right back to the days of War Games and Tab. Bringing us into the 21st century, Microsoft has decided to ditch the old boot by ...