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RuhrSec 2018: "The Story of Meltdown and Spectre", Dr. Daniel Gruss & Jann Horn

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RuhrSec is the annual English speaking non-profit IT security conference with cutting-edge security talks by renowned experts. RuhrSec is organized by Hackmanit. 🔽 More information ... Abstract. In this talk we will tell the story of Meltdown and Spectre. We will outline how research from the past two decades was the foundation of the discovery of these vulnerabilities while providing preliminary information. We will point out and illustrate how what the root causes of Meltdown and Spectre are. In the main part of the talk we will describe how Meltdown and Spectre work. We will discuss different attack scenarios and the impact of these attacks. Finally, we will outline countermeasures against the attacks. Biography. Daniel Gruss is a PhD Student at Graz University of Technology. He has done his master's thesis on identifying and minimizing architecture dependent code in operating system kernels. Daniel's research focuses on software-based sid …...more
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RuhrSec 2018: "The Story of Meltdown and Spectre", Dr. Daniel Gruss & Jann Horn
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RuhrSec is the annual English speaking non-profit IT security conference with cutting-edge security talks by renowned experts. RuhrSec is organized by Hackmanit. 🔽 More information ... Abstract. In this talk we will tell the story of Meltdown and Spectre. We will outline how research from the past two decades was the foundation of the discovery of these vulnerabilities while providing preliminary information. We will point out and illustrate how what the root causes of Meltdown and Spectre are. In the main part of the talk we will describe how Meltdown and Spectre work. We will discuss different attack scenarios and the impact of these attacks. Finally, we will outline countermeasures against the attacks. Biography. Daniel Gruss is a PhD Student at Graz University of Technology. He has done his master's thesis on identifying and minimizing architecture dependent code in operating system kernels. Daniel's research focuses on software-based side-channel attacks that exploit timing differences in hardware and operating system. In July 2015, he and his colleagues demonstrated the first hardware fault attack performed through a remote website, known as Rowhammer.js. Biography. Jann Horn is a security researcher working with Google Project Zero. He focuses primarily on kernel and hypervisor security. Speakers: Dr. Daniel Gruss and Jann Horn ——— 👉 Subscribe to our channel:    / @hackmanit-it-security   👉 Read more about interesting IT Security topics on our blog: https://hackmanit.de/en/blog-en ✍️ Want a deeper dive? Training courses in Single Sign-On (SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect), Secure Web Development, TLS and Web Services are available here: https://hackmanit.de/en/training/port... ——— 🌍 RuhrSec conference website: https://www.ruhrsec.de 🌍 Visit our website: https://hackmanit.de/en ✔ Follow RuhrSec on Twitter:   / ruhrsec   ✔ Follow Hackmanit on Twitter:   / hackmanit   Linkedin:   / hackmanit   XING: https://www.xing.com/pages/hackmanitgmbh ——— Thanks for your attention and support. Stay secure. #cybersecurity # MeltdownandSpectre #ruhrsec #cyber #talk #conference #itsecurity #itsicherheit #cyberattackscenarios

Hackmanit – IT Security

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