Update 1/22/23: Title updated as MSI intentionally changed this setting as per statement below. Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Secure Boot is an industry standard for ensuring that Windows devices don’t load malicious firmware or software during the startup process. If you have it turned on—as you should in most cases, and it ...

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 ...

MSI motherboards, from both Intel and AMD, have been vulnerable due to a broken Secure Boot firmware setting issue. The bug would allow potentially malicious files to boot into an affected system. One ...

This article describes how to enable Secure Boot to install Windows 11. How Do I Enable Secure Boot? The easiest way to enable Secure Boot is to do so through UEFI. It's typically listed as one of the ...

In this post, we are going to see what you can do to resolve Event ID 1801, Secure Boot CA/keys need to be updated. Event ID 1801 is a warning logged by Windows to indicate that the Secure Boot ...