A pivotal aspect for any user, whether a seasoned system administrator or a curious enthusiast, is understanding its boot process and runlevels. This article aims to demystify these concepts, ...

a group of vulnerabilities that allow malicious actors to replace the logo image displayed on Windows and Linux devices during the boot process. The replaced images can contain malicious code that ...

is used to preload necessary drivers and files required to successfully boot the Linux system. After the kernel is loaded, control is transferred to the init process, the first process executed by the ...

This process relies on components known as bootloaders that are responsible for loading ... primary bootloader for all major Linux distros, but it can also boot and is sometimes used for Windows ...

Security researchers have uncovered rare malware that can infect a Linux machine’s boot process, making it harder ... I've been working as a journalist for over 15 years—I got my start as ...

There are a lot of things that I like about UEFI firmware and the UEFI boot process ... get UEFI boot working for their own installation, you couldn't get it to boot any other Linux installation ...

If successfully exploited, BootHole opens up Windows and Linux devices to arbitrary code execution during the boot process ... failure of layered security, to launch an attack in order to gain ...

Red Hat, Canonical and the Linux Foundation have laid out ... Red Hat and Canonical argue that “If the process required to disable secure boot is difficult for non-technical users, then we ...