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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If you've been keeping an ear to the ground for updates involving Microsoft's Secure Boot mechanism, buckle up—there's a lot to unpack here. Secure Boot, a critical security feature baked right into your system's firmware as part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), often...