Survey Suggests Many Are Still Waiting for Spectre, Meltdown Windows Updates

BY: Jai Vijayan
Microsoft's insistence on a specific registry key setting for offering the updates on systems appears to be the issue, security vendor Barkly says.
 The results of a small survey suggest that many organizations could still be waiting to receive updates for patching their Windows systems against the critical Spectre and Meltdown microprocessor vulnerabilities disclosed last week.
The vulnerabilities affect a wide set of products and give attackers a way to read sensitive data in system memory, including encryption keys and passwords.
Security vendor Barkly this week surveyed 75 IT pros responsible for managing security updates at their organizations and found more than half said they had received updates for barely 25% of their vulnerable Windows systems. A surprising 26% said that none of their Windows systems had received an update even one week after Microsoft rushed them out in an out-of-cycle patch release.
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