All Services Will Be Affected.

A number of serious security vulnerabilities affecting many CPU architectures have recently been disclosed by Google Project Zero. Jann Horn of Project Zero recently made the announcement. “We have discovered that CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated execution, leading to (at worst) arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local security boundaries in various contexts.” As a result, our servers are requiring maintenance at multiple levels. Due to the severity of the vulnerabilities, action must be taken swiftly, which will require up to two hours or server downtime…