MSI accidentally disabled Secure Boot on hundreds of its motherboards. Secure Boot is a security feature that helps protect against malicious software by ensuring that only software with a valid ...

Among the requirements for installing Windows 11 are two security features: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 and Secure Boot. As we’ve documented before ...

The latest firmware update for MSI motherboards broke a major security feature, putting countless computers at risk of malware and other threats, a security expert has claimed. Researcher Dawid ...

Motherboard maker MSI might have accidently disabled some secure boot features on more than 290 MSI motherboards. The changes will allow any operating system image to run regardless of whether it has ...

Motherboards in circulation in recent years are equipped with a function 'Secure Boot' that restricts the bootable OS and strengthens security. However, security researcher Dawid Potocki has revealed ...

Why it matters: Secure Boot is a technology designed to protect the PC boot chain and avoid running a tampered operating system. A firmware update released by MSI, however, changed the feature ...

Secure Boot has been a core part of PC motherboards for more than a decade -- MSI needed to be reminded of that. A security researcher recently discovered that MSI has released more than 300 ...

The Secure Boot feature on as many as 300 MSI motherboards reportedly doesn't work as you might expect—or as the feature is intended. Specifically, the motherboards will allow unvalidated firmware and ...

If you use an add-on TPM module ($25ish), rather than using the chip's built-in emulator, I don't think you lose your Bitlocker key when you do a BIOS update. You just have to remember to switch the ...

Eh, I don't think MSI made an unreasonable choice for their target market. It would be much less defensible if an OEM selling prebuilt PCs did the same. It would be nice if there was some kind of ...