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Don't fear the BIOS update: Asus has just fixed a local access vulnerability affecting older Intel motherboards

To be clear, it's only older motherboards for 8th and 9th Gen Intel CPUs that are affected by the issue. I'll be honest: BIOS updates give me the willies.

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To be clear, it's only older motherboards for 8th and 9th Gen Intel CPUs that are affected by the issue. I'll be honest: BIOS updates give me the willies. Unfortunately, even as such a source of undue anxiety, they are still well worth staying on top of. Case in point, the latest BIOS update from Asus addresses a vulnerability found in motherboards for 8th and 9th Gen Intel chips.

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