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Although Linux is a very secure operating system, there are steps you can take to make it even more one. One simple step is password protecting the GRUB bootloader. Jack Wallen shows you h If you can ...

The firmware ' UEFI ' installed in the PC has a mechanism called 'Secure Boot'. Secure Boot verifies the signature of the program that is executed before the OS starts, and protects the device by ...

I gave Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64 a fair try on my workstation mainly as a curiosity, and while it was somewhat usable (and Compiz Fusion was very nice and relatively bug-free) there were too many issues for ...

A newly discovered vulnerability in the GRUB2 bootloader, dubbed BootHole, may threaten Linux and Windows machines using Secure Boot. Attackers who exploit it could interfere with the boot process and ...

When Ubuntu changed to Grub 2 a couple of releases ago, it became significantly more difficult to set up multi-boot Linux systems. Most if not all Ubuntu derivatives are also using Grub2, and now the ...

Researchers at security firm Eclypsium have discovered a means whereby malicious code can be inserted during the boot-up process on a device running Linux, due to a flaw in the bootloader used: the ...

Bootloaders are an essential bit of software for almost every modern electronic device. Unfortunately, any vulnerabilities in the bootloader can open a device up to attackers. Eclypsium researchers ...

The modular Grand Unified Bootloader in version 2.x is still the boot method used by the installers of most Linux systems. Support for a number of file systems, EFI, secure boot and multiboot make ...