UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. It is a replacement for the BIOS, which is used to set up the hardware and load and start an operating system in today’s Windows 11/10 PCs.

At the dawn of the PC, IBM provided the Basic Input Output System (BIOS). It took care of bringing the machine up, and exposed a series of software hooks for the hardware. Over the years the BIOS ...

A legitimate module could have been abused to deploy bootkit malware that persists even when the hard drive is replaced.

This security feature, enabled by default and included in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), is designed to protect your PC from threats. Secure Boot is supported by Windows 11 ...

But a few years ago, motherboard manufacturers—in partnership with Microsoft and Intel—introduced a replacement for traditional BIOS chips dubbed UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface).

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), a set of routines that boot an operating system, carries almost a dozen vulnerabilities which, when chained together, can be used to deploy ...

This particular method of targeting firmware images is classified as a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) rootkit. The strain was named CosmicStrand by researchers working for ...

The brand, known for its graphics cards, is transitioning its latest 9000 series GPUs to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware standard. This means shifting away from the pre ...

Note that navigating this interface can vary a bit from computer to computer, especially if you have a newer machine running a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, or UEFI (which, despite being ...