John has an customary Sony Vaio PC that seems unlikely to receive a firmware update. Should he replace it?My Microsoft Surface Book is protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws,but my Sony Vaio Pro remains vulnerable to Spectre. Both laptops dash Windows 10 and believe been updated via Windows Update. The Surface Book’s BIOS has also been updated by Microsoft, but there is no BIOS update for the Vaio and, and I suspect,for millions of other machines.
What is the risk of continuing to dash the Vaio with this known critical vulnerability? Is there another way to mitigate it? Or, in the end, or do thousands of people believe to dump otherwise edifying machines and buy novel ones? John PiattIt’s too soon to say. Bear in mind that,so far, there are no known exploits for these vulnerabilities, and so the current level of risk is low. Companies will try to defend against threats as and when they appear. In the short term,we’ll just believe to see how well that goes.
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Source: guardian.co.uk