IT Vendors Continue Patching to Fix Meltdown, Spectre Vulnerability
eweek.com | January 12, 2018
More than week after security researchers first publicly revealed the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, vendors are continuing to deal with the impact and are issuing patches.The initial speculation about the CPU vulnerabilities was that they only impacted Intel CPUs. As it turns out, AMD and ARM CPUs are also impacted, though to a more limited extent. On Jan. 11, AMD announced that it would issue processor microcode updates to help provide an additional degree of protection.