Following my recent posts concerning my experiences with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and secure booting, here's a Q&A with Mark Doran, the UEFI forum president. In general I agree ...

As embedded systems become more powerful and interconnected, security at every stage of system operation becomes critical. In previous articles, we discussed secure SoC architectures and key ...

Today's mobile phones are used for a myriad of new applications that involve storing sensitive data and providing such secure services as mobile payments. With phones storing more critical information ...

A boot sequence describes the initial set of operations performed by a device at the start of the boot process. During this stage, available resources reside in some form of local, nonvolatile storage ...

Last week, I alerted readers how Microsoft was requiring OEMs to implement, by default, UEFI secure boot on new Windows 8 machines. The Linux community had been worried for months that secure boot ...

If your computer is turned off, switch it on and keep tapping Delete or F2. If your PC is running, ensure to restart it, and when the logo of your motherboard flashes, start tapping Delete or F2. Once ...

Battlefield 2042 is still receiving updates as EA gives its full attention to "Battlefield 6" development. Update 8.8.0 introduces a new Secure Boot requirement, forcing Battlefield 2042 gamers to ...

To disable Secure Boot, you need to restart your PC and open the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Secure Boot is a feature in your PC's UEFI that only ...

You may have noticed some curious extras in the Battlefield 6 system requirements that go well beyond the usual CPU and GPU specs, with several acronyms that don't look particularly friendly if you're ...