Microsoft patches the patch that can brick Surface Hub v1 screens

Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to deal with a Surface Hub problem introduced with June's Patch Tuesday fixes.

The problem arrived in KB5060533 for Windows 10 21H2 and 22H2 and left several Surface Hub v1 devices stuck with a start failure. On June 11, Microsoft paused the update for Surface Hub v1 to stop the problem spreading, and a week later issued a patch to deal with it.

The issue does not affect the Surface Hub 2S and 3, but afflicted Surface Hub v1 devices would fail to start and show the error: "Secure Boot Violation: Invalid signature detected. Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup."

Though Microsoft acted swiftly in pausing the update, questions remain over how such a critical flaw made it through testing.

To make matters worse, it doesn't appear that there is a reliable workaround. Microsoft's note on the subject says: "We are ...