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One of the benefits of following InfoSec Twitter and different tech sites is getting early word on data breaches, issues, products, and patches. Today I came across an article covering Intel's plea to install driver updates.

The article reports:

Intel employees found eight of the 19 security flaws fixed in the updated Windows drivers. One was reported by a security researcher > who goes by the name @j00sean on Twitter, while the remainder were reported by an external Intel partner.

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All 19 flaws were tagged with CVE dates in 2018. However, fortunately > they all require an attacker to have local access to a machine to exploit them. Some of the updated drivers have been available for download for several months.

Curious, I followed a link in the article to Intel's download page (which can also be accessed here). The site provides a tool to automatically update your drivers. Click the Get started button at the top of the page to download a small application. Run this once available. The tool scans your computer and identifies any outdated drivers. You'll then be prompted to download and install the updates. The entire process is finalizes with a system restart.