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MSI responds to a recent discovery of a Secure Boot bug in the firmware that affects many AMD and Intel motherboards.

The firm has admitted it essentially disabled Secure Boot on its motherboards in an attempt to improve customisability

MSI changed a default setting in Secure Boot which effectively disables security checks and leaves PCs vulnerable to malware.

MSI motherboards, from both Intel and AMD, have been vulnerable due to a broken Secure Boot firmware setting issue. The bug would allow potentially malicious files to boot into an affected system.

Over 290 MSI motherboards come with Secure Boot disabled.

Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting settings that allows any operating system image to run regardless of whether it has a wrong or missing signature.

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.

MSI update broke an important security tool, allowing unsigned programs to run at boot.

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Secure Boot is a security standard that oversees that the computer does not boot using unreliable software. This can restrict and prevent different attacks on