When you do get to shut your laptop down, if the battery is removable, remove it. Disconnect form the mains electricity, then press and hold the power button on your laptop for 10+ seconds to perform a hard shut down. The remaining OEMs are still investigating the matter. That was a BIOS update and it seems to have corrupted your BIOS. Rockwell, Supermicro, and Toshiba have confirmed not being impacted. Others may cross that threshold before OEMs come up with a fix.īleepingComputer notes that only Insyde, Fujitsu, and Intel have confirmed being affected by the flaws. What makes the issue that much more complicated is the fact that some of the devices affected have exceeded their end-of-life date and are no longer supported. Updated software and firmware mitigations should be available in the next. While Insyde released firmware patches to help address the issue, these now need to be accepted by the OEMs and released onto affected products, and that might take a while. The newly released BIOS updates from GIGABYTE which integrate the latest Intel. “All of the aforementioned vendors (over 25) were using Insyde-based firmware SDK to develop their pieces of (UEFI) firmware.” > This dangerous Intel CPU vulnerability could allow attackers to break into your laptop (opens in new tab) > Faulty update mechanism puts millions of Dell devices at risk (opens in new tab) Millions of Dell PCs could be at risk from driver security flaw dating from 2009 (opens in new tab)
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