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Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

Posted Apr 22, 2022 20:31 UTC (Fri) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
In reply to: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by abatters
Parent article: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

This put 30M Dell devices at risk for remote BIOS attacks

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-is/000188682/dsa-20...

Many of OEM's are using insyde

https://cybersecurityworldconference.com/2022/02/02/exper...

Insyde Software Security Advisory can be found here
https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge

Report issued by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Commerce

"Firmware presents a large and ever-expanding attack surface, as the population of electronic
devices grows. Securing the firmware layer is often overlooked, but it is a single point of failure
in devices and is one of the stealthiest methods in which an attacker can compromise devices at
scale. Over the past few years, hackers have increasingly targeted firmware to launch
devastating attacks."

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/ICT%20Sup...

And the list goes on...


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