ZDNet

Hands-On: Linux UEFI multi-boot, part two

I'm going to start this post by saying something that a lot of people will find surprising. There are a lot of things that I like about UEFI firmware and the UEFI boot process. I think it is an ...
ZDNet

Hands-On: Linux UEFI multi-boot part three, problem solving

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...
Ars Technica

Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux

When and where was this golden age in which BIOSes shipped with no major bugs and didn’t need patching? It certainly wasn’t the Windows 95-98 era, I know that. Click to expand... I have JiffyDOS ROMs ...
Computerworld

Goodbye BIOS, hello UEFI

Your computer's basic input/output system (BIOS) is about to become history and be replaced by Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) -- and that brings both advantages and problems. When you ...
Ars Technica

Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux

Whilst lower level exploits are always more problematic and harder to detect I'm not seeing how this is allegedly going to live through replacing the drive. Per the diagram the first exploit code is ...