Microsoft released an update for Surface, protecting it from Meltdown and Specter

This article is in the series: Overview of vulnerabilities on Intel, AMD, ARM chips: Meltdown and Specter. Please read all the articles in the series to get information as well as take steps to protect your device against these two serious security holes.

Named Meltdown and Specter, these two vulnerabilities affect every device that has been launched in the past 20 years running Intel, AMD and ARM processors.

Surface machine has been updated

Installing the latest patches is the main way that users can now protect themselves against the two vulnerabilities mentioned above. In its article, Microsoft also said these vulnerabilities could affect cloud services and are trying to find ways to protect. Until now, there has been no actual attack on Windows machines that exploit these two vulnerabilities.

Below is a list of Windows 10 Surface machines that can be updated with a new patch:

• Surface Pro 3
• Surface Pro 4
• Surface Book
• Surface Studio
• Surface Pro Model 1796
• Surface Laptop
• Surface Pro with LTE Advanced
• Surface Book 2

The Microsoft representative also confirmed with The Verge that the updates were released. Users can download it by checking the system update on the computer or visiting the Microsoft Download Center page (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023482/surface-download-drivers-and- firmware-for-surface) . However, Microsoft also emphasized that users should wait for the appropriate firmware update for Meltdown and Specter instead of downloading the old versions.

See more:

• Microsoft released an Intel chip patch
• Serious security vulnerability on Intel chips
• How to protect the computer against Meltdown vulnerability on CPU?