Microsoft has published the hardware requirements that manufacturers must follow if they want to slap a “Designed for Windows 8” sticker onto their systems. In among many innocuous ...

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions make dual booting easy, once certain configuration issues are addressed. Dual booting requires that space be made on the hard ...

Since my last blog post about the HP Pavilion dm1-4310ez, I have continue to investigate and experiment with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot, Secure Boot, and multi-booting with ...

3 Windows OS Loader %SystemRoot%\system32\winload.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\winload.efi 4 Windows NT OS Kernel %SystemRoot%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe When you hit the ...

After the two previous posts about installing openSuSE 12.3 and Fedora 18 on my sub-notebooks with UEFI BIOS and Windows 8, my intention was to continue with the same theme a third time and write ...

c't has reported several times on the current security problems surrounding UEFI Secure Boot. Microsoft's multiple changes to the plan have led to many questions. Here we answer some of the most ...

A new ransomware variant prevents infected computers from loading Windows by replacing their master boot record (MBR) and displays a message asking users for money, according to security researchers ...