Why do I feel like anything with the word “secure” in its name isn’t actually safe at all? source: arstechnica.com/security/2026/… The images are known as #shims, which were invented to extend Secure Boot to Linux devices and utility software. Using a technique simple enough to be performed by novice hackers, these old, forgotten shims can be used to completely circumvent the protection, which is embedded into the #UEFI (Unified Extensible #Firmware Interface) of the device’s #motherboard. The gaffe is the result of the failure by #Microsoft, which oversees the #signing of shims, to revoke the publicly available images once vulnerabilities were found in them.#news #security #boot #cybersecurity #hack #hacker #software #vulnerability #fail #bios #secureboot #computer #laptop #notebook