This article highlights the issues that older computer systems will encounter when the Secure Boot Certificate expires ...

A crucial Windows security certificate just expired - how to check your PC ...

Certificate Expiration: The KEK CA 2011 certificate expired on June 24, 2026, stopping unpatched systems from receiving new Secure Boot revocations. Trust Chain Preservation: The update replaces 2011 ...

This article dives deep into the engineering tradeoffs required to achieve side-channel-resilient PQC implementations on modern root-of-trust (RoT) devices that must meet high-assurance security ...

Cryptographic hash functions are a key building block in embedded security. They take input data of any size and convert it into a fixed-length value, called a hash or message digest. This hash acts ...

Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools. Windows admins are going to be busy this month, ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a transformative technology that enables physical objects to connect and exchange data via the internet. According to a survey in 2022 1, estimated that there were 14.4 ...

STMicroelectronics has added two members to the STM32U3 ultra-low-power Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller family: the STM32U3B5 and STM32U3C5 MCUs get more resources with up to 640 KB SRAM and 2 MB flash ...

Microsoft has confirmed that a known issue preventing some Windows 11 devices from shutting down also affects Windows 10 systems with Virtual Secure Mode (VSM) enabled. VSM is a Windows security ...

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Kernel fitImage signing is an important step in embedded secure boot. In this technique, a public-private key pair is generated by OpenSSL. The private key is used to sign the kernel fitImage. The ...