(Ars Technica) – Since 2016, Microsoft has required all Windows devices to include a strong, trusted platform module that enforces Secure Boot. To this day, organizations widely regard Secure Boot as an important, if not essential, foundation of trust in securing devices in some of the most critical environments.

Microsoft has a much harder time requiring Secure Boot to be enforced on specialized devices, such as scientific instruments used inside research labs. As a result, gear used in some of the world’s most sensitive environments still doesn’t enforce it. On Tuesday, researchers from firmware security firm Eclypsium called out one of them: the Illumina iSeq 100, a DNA sequencer that’s a staple at 23andMe and thousands of other gene-sequencing laboratories around the world. (Read More)