The Secure Boot feature on as many as 300 MSI motherboards reportedly doesn't work as you might expect—or as the feature is intended. Specifically, the motherboards will allow unvalidated ...

However did that happen? Motherboard maker MSI might have accidently disabled some secure boot features on more than 290 MSI motherboards. The changes will allow any operating system image to ...

300+ models of MSI motherboards have Secure Boot turned off. Is yours affected? The shortcoming has left users susceptible to malicious bootloaders for 18 months.

The default Secure Boot settings on MSI motherboards effectively fool Windows 11, giving users a false sense of security.

It turns out the insecure motherboards are a result of MSI changing its default settings about 18 months ago. All its UEFI systems since then have shipped with Secure Boot disabled.

Hundreds of UEFI products from 10 vendors are susceptible to compromise due to a critical firmware supply-chain issue known as PKfail, which allows attackers to bypass Secure Boot and install malware.

According to a young security researcher, MSI last year released a firmware update which made many of its motherboards less secure than they should have been.

If your Windows computer does not boot normally but instead displays a red warning box saying Secure Boot Violation, Invalid signature detected, Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup then this post ...

MSINFO says secure boot is unsupported so I assume it's actually turned off on my system instead of the turned on but still booting anything the system describes and I'll probably leave it that way.