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Jacob Ridley

Secure Boot certificates used by anti-cheat software are set to expire in June but new ones are already in the mail

Gigabyte's BIOS screen showing Secure Boot options.

Secure Boot is a security feature in Windows 11 that ensures your PC is running firmware that's legit, the real deal, to prevent malware and cheats. Unfortunately, the certificates it relies on to carry out this task are expiring in June this year, which has kicked Microsoft into action to start issuing replacements to PCs in need of them via Windows updates.

The latest security update, KB5074109, will start a process of checking whether a PC is using the expiring Secure Boot certificates (2011 CA) and provide the newer certificates (2023 CA) if so.

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