Acer fixes major laptop bug that hackers can use to disable secure boot

Researchers have detected a new set of vulnerabilities impacting a number of Acer consumer and business laptops. The vulnerability, uncovered bt ESET allowed bad actors to deactivate UEFI Secure Boot by creating NVRAM, a type of non-volatile Random Access Memory, variables directly from the operating system.  UEFI Secure Boot is a feature that acts as a verification mechanism, which ensures that malignant software like rootkits and botkits can’t boot on your systems, allowing them to disable or bypass protections or to deploy their own payloads with the system privileges.
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