One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader’s password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system. GRUB, which stands for the Grand Unified ...

Linux shim, a small piece of code that many major Linux distros use during the secure boot process, has a remote code execution vulnerability in it that gives attackers a way to take complete control ...

Microsoft’s vulnerability and mitigations team have discovered a bug in a program called Shim, which is used in Linux distributions that support secure boot. While the vulnerability, CVE-2023-40547, ...

Smart infrastructure vendor Nebulon today announced that its latest offerings provide newly hardened backups for configuration and snapshots, in an effort to add a new tool to the antiransomware ...

There is a gaping security hole in the open-source bootloader shim that allows attackers – to inject their code in a man-in-the-middle position –, for example. A complete compromise of the systems is ...

At the weekend, it emerged that the Windows updates in August caused numerous Linux distributions to no longer start. The cause is bootloaders blocked by the Windows updates – Microsoft now explains ...

I have RH 7.1 and am running Win2k. I was just using the Win2k bootloader by editing the boot.ini and copying over the boot sector from Linux. However, I would like to install WinXP this weekend, but ...

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader’s password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system. GRUB, which stands for the Grand Unified ...