Windows 11 is refreshing Secure Boot keys in 2026. Here's why TPM-WMI Event ID 1801 appears, and how to verify the new certificate.

Microsoft is reminding users that the Secure Boot ecosystem will soon require a mandatory check-up. The Redmond-backed security protocol, part of the UEFI specification and primarily ...

Your PC's critical security certificates may be about to expire - how to check ...

Find the Secure Boot option and change it to Disabled. Save the changes and reboot again. We recommend keeping Secure Boot enabled unless you're sure it needs to be disabled. This article explains how ...

Over the past year, there's been a raging debate over what kinds of encryption companies should use and whether they should retain the ability to crack end-user devices when ordered to do so by the ...

Whoops! Two researchers discovered earlier this year that Microsoft accidentally included an internal debugging tool, or policy, on Surface hardware shipped to customers. It’s a “golden key” of sorts ...

Microsoft inadvertently published a Secure Boot “golden key” policy that allows for self-signed or unsigned binaries to be loaded on Windows devices. The gaffe, meant to be a legitimate debugging and ...

There were no actual software keys involved when anonymous researchers claimed that Microsoft had leaked so-called "golden keys" to the Windows secure boot protection scheme, according to an industry ...

Someone at Microsoft is having one of those Southwest moments where the airlines asks, "Want to get away?" That's because someone at the Redmond outfit leaked a security key that could allow attackers ...