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Kylian Mbappé has retained the World Cup Golden Boot after Lionel Messi failed to score in Sunday's final against Spain. The France and Real Madrid striker scored twice against England in a 6-4 defeat ...

Lionel Messi celebrates Argentina's second goal against England in the semi-final. Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Lionel Messi’s remarkable campaign gathered even greater momentum after Argentina booked ...

The significance of the Golden Boot has seemingly increased with each passing World Cup. It wasn’t until 1982 that the tournament’s top goalscorer was officially recognized by FIFA with a physical ...

Editor's note:Follow for live updates from Argentina-England World Cup showdown! The Golden Boot race at the 2026 World Cup has not disappointed, with Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe leading the pack.

An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was ...

Six vulnerabilities in the widely used U-Boot bootloader have been discovered that could allow attackers to execute malicious code during device boot, potentially enabling stealthy firmware attacks ...

The race for the Golden Boot at the FIFA World Cup 2026 has become one of the tournament's biggest talking points, with several of football's biggest stars still in contention as the quarter-finals ...

Most people don’t spend time thinking about Secure Boot. (Not even the staff at PCWorld.) But this Windows security feature provides a vital protection against dangerous malware—one some PCs have just ...

Microsoft just pushed the Secure Boot 2023 certificate update to all eligible Windows 11 and Windows 10 computers, just in time given that old certificates were due to expire today. It’s a good thing, ...

The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before ...

While the ultimate goal at the World Cup is to claim the championship, there are also individual honors to be won along the way. One of those is the coveted Golden Boot, which goes to the tournament's ...