Patch Tuesday is here

Patch Tuesday is here, and so are articles in regards to what is in them. This Trend Micro article entitled January’s Patch Tuesday Fixes 56 Security Issues, Including Meltdown and Spectre tells us about some of the issues and describes the two biggest bugs talked about now. Of course, we can’t forget the Krebs coverage of patch tuesday with his article this month entitled Microsoft’s Jan. 2018 Patch Tuesday Lowdown iws just that, a rundown, including links to other coverage on the blog. On the 3rd of January, our contributer, Shaun Everess, sent me this PC World article entitled Meltdown and Spectre FAQ: How the critical CPU flaws affect PCs and Macs and it does go in to some detail on the latest two major issues. I’m still confused about these two flaws, but it doesn’t appear to just be an Intel issue from what I’m hearing. This article from F-Secure which I read did help some. Some Notes On Meltdown And Spectre is the article from these guys. Trend Micro also has an article entitled When Speculation Is Risky: Understanding Meltdown and Spectre – TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog and thats the first article I read on this issue. We’ll continue to monitor this one, and any other issues that we have been made aware of.