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11 Old Microsoft-Signed Linux UEFI Shims Could Let Attackers Bypass Secure Boot
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 11 old, Microsoft-signed, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) applications that could be abused to bypass Secure Boot on most systems using the modern firmware standard.
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