Secure Boot protects modern Windows and Linux PCs. Microsoft Secure Boot certificates from 2011 expire in June 2026. Most PC owners are fine if they install the latest updates. Last year's ...

Make sure you've updated before the deadline.

Get ye to Windows Update, because there's a good chance you've got new Secure Boot certificates to install. Microsoft just announced that it will be refreshing those certificates, which were ...

In brief: Secure Boot was originally introduced with Windows 8 as a firmware-based security feature designed to protect the OS from potentially malicious boot code. After more than 15 years, the ...

Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a ...

TL;DR: Secure Boot certificates in Windows 10 and 11 will expire by June 2026, risking system security and compatibility. Microsoft is issuing new certificates through updates and OEM firmware ...

In this post, we will show you how to disable Secure Boot in Hyper-V and what to do if Hyper-V is not booting when Secure Boot is enabled. If you’re running a Generation 2 virtual machine in Hyper-V ...

In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.

Microsoft has begun rolling out updated Secure Boot certificates through monthly Windows updates to replace the original 2011 certificates that will expire in late June 2026. Introduced in 2011, ...

Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5075912 extended security update to fix February 2026 Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities, including six zero-days, and continue rolling out replacements for expiring ...

Devices that don’t receive new Secure Boot certificates may miss out on future security updates. Devices that don’t receive new Secure Boot certificates may miss out on future security updates. is a ...