The flaws, named Meltdown and Spectre, were discovered by security researchers at Google’s Project Zero in conjunction with academic and industry researchers from several countries. Meltdown is “probably one of the worst CPU bugs ever found”, said Daniel Gruss, one of the researchers at Graz University of Technology who discovered the flaw. Q&A What can I do about the Meltdown and Spectre flaws? Show Hide Users can do little to avoid the security flaws apart from update their computers with the latest security fixes as soon as possible. Microsoft said it was in the process of patching its cloud services and had released security updates on 3 January for Windows customers.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2018 12:06 UTC