A profile of former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, who was criticized for the company’s slow move into AI, cloud, and data analytics, as she releases a book on her life (Anjli Raval/Financial Times)

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A profile of former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, who was criticized for the company’s slow move into AI, cloud, and data analytics, as she releases a book on her life  —  The former IBM chief executive’s new b…

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BlackLotus Malware Hijacks Windows Secure Boot Process

Researchers have discovered malware that “can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled and running on fully updated versions of Windows.”

Dubbed BlackLotus, the malware is what’s known as a UEFI bootkit. These sophisticated pieces of malware target the UEFI—short for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface—the low-level and complex chain of firmware responsible for booting up virtually every modern computer. As the mechanism that bridges a PC’s device firmware with its operating system, the UEFI is an OS in its own right. It’s located in an …

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