Microsoft has warned that the cryptographic roots underpinning UEFI Secure Boot on Windows devices will begin to expire in June 2026, forcing a global certificate update that every IT team and many end users must plan for now to avoid boot-level insecurities and loss of updateability.
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Microsoft has recently addressed a critical vulnerability in its Secure Boot feature, identified as CVE-2025-3052, which could have allowed attackers to install persistent bootkit malware on most PCs. This flaw, discovered by security researchers at Binarly, involved a legitimate BIOS update...
Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387752,00.asp
As you might notice, in the full article title, Microsoft also says to "Re-install Windows", which was Microsoft's original recommendation.
Reading the full article, you will note that, nowhere, does it say you have to re-install...
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