"Thanks to the ESET
UEFI Scanner, both our consumer and business customers are in a good position to spot such attacks and defend themselves against them," said Juraj Malcho, Chief Technology Officer at ESET.
The ASRock, ECS and Biostar
UEFI BIOSes are quite ordinary when compared to the ones above.
ARM recommends
UEFI as the preferred boot loader for 64-bit processors, based on the ARMv8 AArch64 architecture.
Microsoft is requiring
UEFI on all machines running Windows 8.
Some people prefer to keep a lower profile, so the X470 Series motherboards feature a
UEFI switch that instantly disables all the RGBs and connected strips.
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UEFI Technology Expands in Mobile Devices and Other Non-PC Market Segments, http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/press_releases/UEFI_Specifications_Expand_in_Mobil e_Devices_and_Non-PC_Markets_May_8_2013.pdf
When used as an ultra-fast boot disk on a system with
UEFI, startup times are cut in half.
In addition, the new update now provides support for Windows 8.1 Boot Camp and
uEFI Boot Camp configuration.
Microsoft said in a statement that Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (
UEFI) Secure Boot in Windows 8 is an industry standard aimed at improving computer security and the approach has been public for some time.
The Fedora 18 beta does not address the
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), an industry initiative to secure computers against malware by designing the computer's firmware to require a trusted key before booting.