Rufus, the go-to utility for creating bootable USB drives, has a new pre-release floating around that Neowin reports adds explicit support for Windows 11 25H2 ISOs and several convenience and reliability features — but the details matter for IT teams and power users, and not all of the claims...
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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’s new guidance for Secure Boot key creation and management sharpens the playbook OEMs and ODMs must follow to keep Windows devices secure at scale, and it arrives with concrete, time-sensitive actions: recommended key types and sizes, explicit lifecycle controls, and an urgent rolling...
Microsoft’s guidance on Secure Boot key creation and management is an urgent operational playbook for every Windows administrator: a coordinated certificate rollover is underway that replaces legacy 2011 UEFI/CA trust anchors with new 2023 CA families, and failure to prepare — especially on...
Microsoft’s guidance on Windows Secure Boot key creation and management is a clear signal: organizations and advanced users must prepare now for a multi-year certificate rollover that touches firmware, OS variables, and update pipelines — and that preparation requires coordinated firmware...
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...