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Security2026-07-16 · source-backed
Ars Technica reports that old, forgotten bootloader shims Microsoft never revoked make Secure Boot bypasses trivial. Secure Boot is the root of trust that measured boot and disk-encryption attestation chains depend on, which means every enterprise device-compliance assumption built on it inherits the flaw. It landed the same week as a record-size Patch Tuesday and an actively exploited Windows 0-day. If your compliance posture treats Secure Boot attestation as a gate, that gate has been open for a decade.
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