How does Windows 11 boot. Windows boot process on BIOS systems comprises of four major phases. It starts from POST and ends up loading the Windows OS Loader or the Kernel.

Windows 11/10 provides the necessary Boot architecture for avoiding bootkits and rootkits threats. It has the potential to eliminate kernel-level malware from your network.

Microsoft created a video that shows off the new boot process of Windows 8. It's basically out with the legacy DOS stuff, on UEFI systems the software giant intends to give manufacturers the ...

It was introduced in the early 2010s in conjunction with Windows 8. Secure Boot ensures that a system's bootup process has not been compromised by checking the signature of software that starts ...

To defeat Secure Boot, the bootkit exploits CVE-2022-21894, a vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that Microsoft patched in January 2022. The logic flaw, referred to as Baton Drop ...

BootHole is a vulnerability in GRUB2, one of today's most popular bootloader components.Currently, GRUB2 is used as the primary bootloader for all major Linux distros, but it can also boot and is ...

Rather than invoking the UEFI functions LoadImage and StartImage for performing the Secure Boot process, reloader.efi used a custom PE loader. This custom loader didn’t perform the required checks.

VBootkit 2.0, which is just 3KB in size, allows an attacker to take control of the computer by making changes to Windows 7 files that are loaded into the system memory during the boot process.

If you dual boot your Windows PC with OS X or Linux, you may have experienced a problem in which your clocks reset themselves incorrectly every time you boot into Windows. Here's a simple registry ...