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Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that helps PC cheaters (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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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 […]

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[–] Sludge@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

There has to be a way to prevent cheaters other than granting the riot launcher kernel level access to your PC, right?