Neowin News Feed for: Grub2

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...

As Microsoft expands Windows 11 ReFS, Rufus alternate Ventoy gets high-capacity NTFS support

Sayan Sen — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 06:48:01 +0000

Ventoy, which is a popular tool similar to Rufus, has gained the ability to support high-capacity NTFS volumes with the latest update. It also fixes several bugs, mostly related to Linux. Read more...

KB5012170: Microsoft August Patch Tuesday fixes critical Secure Boot GRUB vulnerability

Sayan Sen — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:22:02 +0000

With Patch Tuesday recently, Microsoft released the KB5012170 update which adds new vulnerable UEFI signatures to the Secure Boot DBX. The newly added signatures are related to the GRUB vulnerability. 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...