Summary: Last week we were alerted regarding a recent exploit discovered in Intel, AMD and ARM chips that can allow a remote attacker access data held in CPU memory across a range of servers, desktops, mobile phones etc utilizing these CPU’s . Initially we had been waiting for Vendors to release software patches to mitigate the exploit, these are now available and we will be updating all affected hardware nodes tomorrow morning starting at 0:00 GMT

Maintenance Window:  Tuesday 09th Jan 0:00-06:00 GMT

Services Affected:  All services will be affected by this maintenance window in some manner. We hope to keep disruptions to a minimum and majority of services will not experience any downtime. Some services will however need a reboot which will take 5-10 minutes

Update: This maintenance was successful completed.

Tags: cpu, exploit, intel, maintenance, meltdown, spectre, vulnerability