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Microsoft Surface Flaw Allowed Unprotected Devices To Be Bricked By a Single Packet


Longtime Slashdot reader Dotnaught shares a report from The Register: For the past 90 days, Microsoft has been quietly patching a firmware flaw in Surface devices that allowed the hardware to be bricked with a single packet, though only for those who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot. And th...

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