Security

The vast majority of products greater than two years old don’t have firmware patches available on the manufacturers’ support websites. In reaching out to Gigabyte support to determine if they did, in fact, have firmware available for a particular model, we were then provided with the file. When we asked why they have firmware available that isn’t being published on the product’s support page, they responded with this disturbing revelation:

At present, we provide bios with Intel’s Spectre microcode updated for old models by customers request.