Neowin News Feed for: Uefi

MultiOS-USB 0.10.1

Razvan Serea — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:54:02 +0000

Open-source tool for creating multiboot USB drives, supporting various operating systems with persistence and ISO booting, simplifying OS installations and testing. Read more...

FlashBoot 3.4b

Razvan Serea — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:00:01 +0000

FlashBoot can install fully-functional Windows 10/11 or Windows 8.1 to a USB thumbdrive, so you can carry your OS, apps, documents, games and browsers wherever you go! Read more...

MultiOS-USB 0.9.9

Razvan Serea — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:14:01 +0000

Open-source tool for creating multiboot USB drives, supporting various operating systems with persistence and ISO booting, simplifying OS installations and testing. Read more...

MultiOS-USB 0.9.8

Razvan Serea — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:22:03 +0000

Open-source tool for creating multiboot USB drives, supporting various operating systems with persistence and ISO booting, simplifying OS installations and testing. Read more...

MultiOS-USB 0.9.7

Razvan Serea — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:00:01 +0000

Open-source tool for creating multiboot USB drives, supporting various operating systems with persistence and ISO booting, simplifying OS installations and testing. Read more...

AMD makes a Windows 11 official requirement mandatory for latest graphics cards

Sayan Sen — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:28:01 +0000

AMD has made one of the minimum system requirements of Windows 11 a necessity for its latest generation of graphics cards. Read more...

New Rufus 4.5 has Windows and Linux improvements, for UEFI, NTFS, MBR, ISO, GRUB

Sayan Sen — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:36:01 +0000

Rufus, one of the most popular unofficial third-party software used for creating bootable media has been updated today. The new version has improvements related to UEFI, NTFS, ISO, VHDX, GRUB. Read more...

Rufus 4.5 beta is out with UEFI media validation and various improvements

Taras Buria — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:38:01 +0000

The Beta version of Rufus, a popular app for making bootable USB media, was updated to version 4.5. The most notable changes include runtime UEFI media validation, increased buffer size, and more. Read more...

AMD firmware for LogoFAIL, which lets hacker get into any PC via boot logo, rolling out

Sayan Sen — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 23:26:01 +0000

Nearly all motherboard makes were found vulnerable to the LogoFAIL security flaw at the end of last year. And at long last, AMD's vendor partners are finally beginning to roll out patched firmware. Read more...

"Open source Windows" ReactOS boots on Lumia, iPhones, requirements are less than Windows 11

Sayan Sen — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:12:01 +0000

Remember the open source Windows project called "ReactOS"? The dev team has published a new blog post outlining all the major developments that happened this year like improved UEFI boot support. Read more...

Rufus 4.2 is out with ZIP64, VHDX, FFU support, and more

Taras Buria — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:16:01 +0000

Earlier this month, Pete Batard, creator of the Rufus app, released version 4.2 beta with ZIP64 support and other improvements. After a short testing period, the update is available for all users. Read more...

Microsoft fixes BlackLotus UEFI Secure Boot security flaw on Windows 11, Windows 10, Servers

Sayan Sen — Wed, 10 May 2023 05:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has patched UEFI Secure Boot security vulnerability called BlackLotus with its latest Update Tuesday released earlier today. The fix is available on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Servers. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: New File Explorer, the death of Windows 8.1, and a Teams paywall

Usama Jawad — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:16:01 +0000

Join us in a jampacked week in a new edition of Microsoft Weekly as we recap all the important stuff from the world of the Redmond tech giant, including the death of Windows 8.1 and a Teams paywall. Read more...

Microsoft bizarrely adds half-baked UEFI Secure boot to Windows 7 right before killing it

Sayan Sen — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 07:42:01 +0000

The extended support updates (ESU) on Windows 7 ends today. Interestingly and rather bizarrely, Microsoft enabled native UEFI and Secure Boot. However, the new feature support is not without flaws. Read more...

Beware: Windows PCs with Asus and Gigabyte motherboards housing CosmicStrand UEFI rootkit

Sayan Sen — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:10:01 +0000

Certain Windows PCs with Gigabyte and Asus motherboards have been found to be infected with a new "CosmicStrand" UEFI rootkit. The malware is an evolution of an older rootkit dubbed "Spy Shadow". Read more...

Lenovo ThinkPad Ryzen 6000 laptops with Microsoft Pluton refuse to run Linux by default

Sayan Sen — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 16:18:01 +0000

Back at CES, Lenovo launched its ThinkPad Z series with Microsoft Pluton powered by Ryzen 6000. However, these new notebooks refuse to run non-Windows OS, like Linux, without firmware tweak. Read more...

UEFI firmware from Microsoft, Intel, and more, at risk from nearly two dozen threats

Sayan Sen — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:04:02 +0000

Firmware security research firm Binarly has revealed that it discovered nearly two dozen vulnerabilities in InsydeH2O UEFI used by several vendors like Microsoft, Intel, Dell, HP, and more. Read more...

New BootHole flaw in Secure Boot affects a huge number of Linux and Windows systems

Abhay V — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:44:01 +0000

A newly discovered flaw in Secure Boot affects almost all Linux distros and Windows devices that leverage the UEFI boot tech. If the flow is exploited, attackers can gain full control of the system. Read more...

Microsoft refreshes its range of Azure virtual machine offerings

Boyd Chan — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:00:09 +0000

With virtual computing solutions targeting a variety of workloads such as enterprise applications, visualization, and machine learning, Microsoft has announced updates to its Azure VM solutions. Read more...

Microsoft announces Project Mu to promote Firmware as a Service

Usama Jawad — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:20:01 +0000

Microsoft wants firmware development to follow the Firmware as a Service (FaaS) model. It has announced an open-source release of Project Mu, which allows UEFI development in a modular manner. Read more...

ESET uncovers first case of a UEFI rootkit used by Sednit group in the wild

Ruel Revales — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:44:02 +0000

Security researchers at ESET have discovered what they claim to be the first UEFI rootkit being used in the wild, allowing hackers to write persistent malware into the target computers. Read more...

Microsoft releases new driver updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4

Andy Weir — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:34:01 +0000

Microsoft has rolled out a bunch of driver updates for its newest Surface devices - but as has become common practice for the company these days, it hasn't yet published any details about them. Read more...

Intel code leaves systems vulnerable to attacks; flaw used to bypass all Windows security

Paul Hill — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 06:22:01 +0000

Old Intel code still present in UEFI firmware used by many machines has left devices open to attacks. Lenovo admits that the Secure Boot-disabling vulnerability's scope of impact is industry wide. Read more...

Security experts create worm that infects Mac firmware and is nearly impossible to get rid of

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 08:26:01 +0000

Macs might seem like a safer alternative than PCs when it comes to digital attacks. But researchers have proven that's not actually the case when they created a firmware worm that infects Macs. Read more...

EasyUEFI 2.0

Razvan Serea — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:04:01 +0000

Create, delete, edit, clean up, backup and restore EFI/UEFI boot options, specifies a one-time boot entry for the next restart, or change the EFI/UEFI boot order without entering BIOS setup. Read more...

Windows 10 to lock out Linux with non-disableable Secure Boot

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 09:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has shifted responsibility to OEMs to decide whether to implement Secure Boot on new PCs, allowing them to lock out Linux and other alternative operating systems. Read more...

Windows 8 Secure Boot bypassed thanks to sloppy OEM implementation

John Callaham — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:52:05 +0000

Researchers showed off how they were able to bypass the Secure Boot system in Windows 8 in two separate exploits at the Black Hat conference last week in Las Vegas. Read more...

Microsoft's Surface Pro and RT firmware updated

John Callaham — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:05:26 +0000

Microsoft's latest firmware update for its Surface Pro and Surface RT tablets have been released, which offer some WiFi improvements for the Pro version and speaker upgrades for the RT tablet. Read more...

Linux group complains to EU, says Microsoft actions are "absolutely anti-competitive"

Andy Weir — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:22:39 +0000

A Linux community association has complained to the EU against Microsoft, claiming UEFI Secure Boot is an anti-competitive "obstruction mechanism" to booting other operating systems on Windows 8 PCs. Read more...

Microsoft hiring for secret Windows Phone technology project

John Callaham — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:20:44 +0000

Microsoft is hiring for a new and "confidential" Windows Phone technology product that somehow involves the operating system's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. Read more...

New proof-of-concept bootkit targets UEFI and Windows 8

Alfonso Maruccia — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:23:04 +0000

Italian researchers have developed a new bootkit capable of infecting the UEFI platform and hijacking the Windows 8 kernel. It's now easier to create such nasty things, the researchers say. Read more...

Windows 8 Secure Boot plans for Ubuntu revealed

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:18:32 +0000

Canonical has revealed how it will offer a way for users to launch its Ubuntu Linux OS on Windows 8-base x86 PCs with Microsoft's rules for the Secure Boot system. Read more...

Linus Torvalds chimes in on Windows 8 and UEFI

John Callaham — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:31:39 +0000

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux OS, has offered some opinions on Windows 8 and its UEFI security measures, saying that a solution to dual boot to Linux via Red Hat is a good compromise. Read more...

Will Windows 8 ARM block Linux from booting?

John Callaham — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:25:36 +0000

A discovery in Microsoft's Windows 8 hardware certification requirements may indicate that ARM-based Windows 8 devices may not be able to dual boot other operating systems like Linux. Read more...

Microsoft clarifies Windows 8 UEFI concerns

Denis Wong — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:23:08 +0000

Microsoft's latest update to "Building Windows 8" describes the security aspects of the OS's UEFI support, of which concerns were raised recently. Read more...