Windows 11 is refreshing Secure Boot keys in 2026. Here's why TPM-WMI Event ID 1801 appears, and how to verify the new certificate.

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that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.

Secure Boot has relied on the same security certificates to verify bootloaders since 2011, during the development cycle for Windows 8. But those original certificates are set to expire in June and ...

Refreshing new certificates represents one of the largest coordinated security maintenance efforts across the Windows ecosystem,' Microsoft explains.

There are certain computer tasks that even professional technicians don't like tackling. For myself, one of the most nerve-wracking was updating a computer's BIOS. The BIOS is like a primitive ...

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Microsoft's KB5077181 security update has caused endless restart loops and system lockouts for Windows 11 users, with no ...

Microsoft recently updated Windows' "Vulnerable Driver Block List" (DriverSiPolicy.p7b) to improve security. However, this update mistakenly blocked WinFlash64.exe, a key program used by Lenovo’s BIOS ...