Tom Warren

Microsoft made Secure Boot a requirement for Windows 11, and has been pushing to use the technology to secure against BIOS rootkits for years. Now, researchers have found that Secure Boot has been compromised on more than 200 device models from Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and more. Ars Technica reports that an important cryptographic key was published on GitHub in 2022, by “someone working for multiple US-based device manufacturers.”

The CrowdStrike outage is far from over, as IT admins scramble to fix systems that have been impacted worldwide. Microsoft says it’s “working closely with CrowdStrike” to help Windows customers get back online after CrowdStrike issued a faulty update that has impacted systems globally.