Microsoft’s Secure Boot Has Been Broken for a Decade, and No One Noticed Until Now In an era where cybersecurity threats are increasingly sophisticated, a glaring vulnerability has been hiding in plain sight for over 10 years.
Researchers at ESET have uncovered a gaping hole in Microsoft's Secure Boot protocol, which is designed to protect devices from firmware infections.
The shims, as they are called, were intended to extend the Secure Boot functionality to Linux devices and utility software.