Speculation is that Microsoft will force hardware vendors to hard wire their computers so that they can only boot Windows 8, through a feature called UEFI. See here, here, here, and here. Microsoft requires that machines conforming to the Windows 8 logo program and running a client version of Windows 8 ship with secure boot enabled….
Day: September 20, 2011
Simple and Easy Security
InfoWorld.com had a good, short, article on hacking here by Roger A. Grimes. Roger makes the point that security losses are not usually due to smart criminals breaking in by unpredictable means, but rather Malicious hackers are using pretty much the same old tools and exploiting the same old weaknesses. However, companies and end-users aren’t…