I call bullsh%t...
"The problems at TfNSW seem to have come about in part due to Meltdown patches throwing other plans out of kilter. "
"Around a third of servers at Transport for New South Wales, the public transport department in Australia’s largest most populous state, need security patches, some dating back to 2007."
If you have unpatched servers going back to 2007, the problem is most certainly NOT caused by whatever the latest OS/Chip/general security blunder is.