Over the last few weeks reports have cropped up about Intel's Core 13th and 14th Generation desktop processors being unstable and crashing. Anyway, Secure Boot is a way to check the integrity of a fundamental part of PCs, to ensure it's not compromised by malware, using cryptographic keys. What Binarly discovered was that the Secure Boot system on motherboards (the circuit boards that for example the above mentioned Intel processors are mounted onto) could be in jeopardy. It appears an unknown vendor accidentally published a legitimate cryptographic key used by the Secure Boot system, on the Github open source code repository. Fingers crossed, PC vendors will take notice and issue updates soon.

Source: Stuff July 30, 2024 03:18 UTC