Riot Games says a security flaw in many recent motherboards could be exploited by cheaters undetected, and now companies including Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI have released BIOS updates to address the issue. According to Riot, “had this issue gone unnoticed, it would have completely nullified all existing DMA detection and prevention tech currently on the market – including that of other gaming companies – due to the nature of this class of cheats running in a privileged area that anti-cheats typically do not run.”
As a result, Riot’s Vanguard anti-cheat software may prompt you to update your system to a patched BIOS so that you can pla …
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