The Purple server will be rebooted Friday between 21:00 and 23:59 BST on Fri 17th Aug 2018 to patch a new variation of the spectre vulnerability.
This vulnerability meant that a local attacker could read private data out of memory.
The outage should only last around 5 minutes while the systems reboots.
Update: 21:52 - This work is starting now
Update: 21:59 - This work has now been completed without incident.
Last updated: 13 March 2024 at 17:31 UTC