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Microsoft's Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026, but older PCs may never get the fix
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In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.
In brief: Secure Boot was originally introduced with Windows 8 as a firmware-based security feature designed to protect the OS from potentially malicious boot code. After more than 15 years, the ...
Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a ...
In sharp contrast with its approach to privacy, Windows 11 security is in a good place, with no major enshittification issues.
PCWorld reports that Microsoft is rolling out critical Secure Boot certificate updates for Windows 11 systems to replace certificates expiring in June 2026. Without these updates, older Windows 11 PCs ...
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