Risky Bulletin Newsletter
January 16, 2023
Risky Biz News: Secure Boot not working on recent MSI motherboards
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Potocki says that since January 2022, MSI has been shipping MSI firmware updates that contain the new insecure Secure Boot defaults.
Tens of MSI motherboard models currently ship with these new settings for both Intel and AMD CPUs, impacting both Windows and Linux distros. A full list of impacted MSI motherboard models is available here.
While it may take some time for MSI to ship new firmware versions with fixed settings for its Secure Boot section, Potocki recommends that all MSI motherboard owners who rely on Secure Boot go into their UEFI/BIOS and change away from "Always Execute" to another policy.