Security research firm Eclypsium has disclosed a vulnerability, BootHole, present in the GRUB 2 bootloader. The researchers noted that almost all Linux distributions are vulnerable because most of them use GRUB 2 for bootloading. In addition, any Windows device that uses the Microsoft Third Party UEFI Certificate Authority is vulnerable. “Thus the majority of laptops, … continue reading
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