surface firmware

Microsoft has reportedly spent roughly the past 90 days shipping Surface firmware updates for a flaw that could let an unpatched device brick itself with a single packet when Secure Boot and Secure Core protections were disabled. The bug is unlikely to become the next mass-exploitation panic...

Microsoft has spent the past 90 days pushing firmware updates for Surface PCs after a reported embedded-controller flaw allowed some unprotected devices with Secure Boot and Secure Core protections disabled to be rendered unbootable by a single malformed hardware command. The unsettling part is...

Microsoft has spent the past 90 days patching a Surface firmware flaw that reportedly allowed some unprotected devices to be rendered unbootable by a single malformed command packet, after an Australian security researcher and The Register coordinated disclosure with Microsoft in March 2026. The...

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