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Microsoft Will Take Nearly a Year To Finish Patching New 0-Day Secure Boot Bug
Microsoft says that the vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker with either physical access to a system or administrator rights on a system. It can affect physical PCs and virtual machines with Secure Boot enabled. We highlight the new fix partly because, unlike many high-priority Windows fixes, the update will be disabled by default for at least a few months after it’s installed and partly because it will eventually render current Windows boot media unbootable. The fix requires changes to the Windows boot manager that can’t be reversed once they’ve been enabled. Additionally, once the fixes have been enabled, your PC will no longer be able to boot from older bootable media that doesn’t include the fixes. On the lengthy list of affected media: Windows install media like DVDs and USB drives created from Microsoft’s ISO files; custom Windows install images maintained by IT departments; full system backups; network boot drives including those used by IT departments to troubleshoot machines and deploy new Windows images; stripped-down boot drives that use Windows PE; and the recovery media sold with OEM PCs.
Not wanting to suddenly render any users’ systems unbootable, Microsoft will be rolling the update out in phases over the next few months. The initial version of the patch requires substantial user intervention to enable — you first need to install May’s security updates, then use a five-step process to manually apply and verify a pair of “revocation files” that update your system’s hidden EFI boot partition and your registry. These will make it so that older, vulnerable versions of the bootloader will no longer be trusted by PCs. A second update will follow in July that won’t enable the patch by default but will make it easier to enable. A third update in “first quarter 2024” will enable the fix by default and render older boot media unbootable on all patched Windows PCs. Microsoft says it is “looking for opportunities to accelerate this schedule,” though it’s unclear what that would entail.
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Microsoft releases optional fix for actively exploited Secure Boot vulnerability
Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday updates are out for Windows 11 and Windows 10 with several fixes for two operating systems. In the case of Windows 11, the KB5026372 cumulative update introduces no less than 20 changes that improve the user experience as well as fixes for 38 security vulnerabilities and…
Tucker Carlson Resurrects His Show on Twitter, After Getting the Boot from Fox
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Intel Boot Guard private keys have reportedly leaked, compromising the security of many computers
Gran Turismo Movie Trailer Reveals David Harbour’s Gamer Boot Camp
Sony continues to mine its many video game properties for screen adaptations, and CinemaCon attendees Monday night were treated at a look at the first trailer for the next one: Gran Turismo.
Stars Orlando Bloom and David Harbour were on hand during Sony’s presentation of its upcoming movie slate, with Harbour joking that he didn’t really understand what the Gran Turismo movie was at first: how do you make a movie out of a racing game with no story? “It’s a racing simulator!” Harbour said he complained to director Neill Blomkamp.
Of course, the movie tells the true story of a teenaged Gran Turismo player who successfully managed to make the leap from gamer to real-life professional racer–it’s a bit different from your standard video game movie adaptation.
Intel Meteor Lake’s Adamantine spine could boost GPU and boot performance
Live11 lets you boot Windows 11 from a DVD using RAM
How to Install Windows in Boot Camp on a Mac
Boot Camp Assistant lets you install Windows on some Mac computers and boot into it, just like you can on a regular PC. Modern Apple Silicon models (M1, M2, and so on) don’t support Boot Camp and must use other methods to run Windows instead.