Chrome OS Build 63 Protected Against the Intel CPU Vulnerability
It has been a frantic week for Apple, Google and Microsoft as they have tried to deal with a serious CPU vulnerability in modern processors from Intel, ARM and AMD. The security issue, which could allow for system memory to be read which could give access to passwords and other sensitive information. The significance of this issue is that it requires an OS level update to fix.
For Google and Chrome OS, the fix is already out. The Chrome 63 train for Chrome OS was released on December 15th and part of that update was fixing this issue. The issue does not impact Chrome OS devices running ARM processors. This is good news as it means a wide swatch of Chromebooks are already protected.