Meltdown And Spectre

A presentation on my understanding of the Meltdown and Spectre hardware exploits. See https://meltdownattack.com/ for more details on the attacks.    • x86 Internals for Fun & Profit • Matt Godb...   is my talk on x86 microarchitecture.

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Meltdown: Basics, Details, Consequences
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Meltdown: Basics, Details, Consequences

Memory & Caches
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Memory & Caches

Performance Tuning
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Performance Tuning

Stanford Seminar - Exploiting modern microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, & other hardware attacks
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Stanford Seminar - Exploiting modern microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, & other hardware attacks

CppCon 2018: Chandler Carruth “Spectre: Secrets, Side-Channels, Sandboxes, and Security”
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CppCon 2018: Chandler Carruth “Spectre: Secrets, Side-Channels, Sandboxes, and Security”

Meltdown and Spectre - Professor Mark Handley, UCL
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Meltdown and Spectre - Professor Mark Handley, UCL

CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”
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CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”

Spectre & Meltdown - Computerphile
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Spectre & Meltdown - Computerphile

But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction
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But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction

x86 Internals for Fun & Profit • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2014
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x86 Internals for Fun & Profit • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2014

Spectre Attacks Exploiting Speculative Execution
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Spectre Attacks Exploiting Speculative Execution

Breaking the x86 Instruction Set
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Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

DEF CON 33 - Kill List: Hacking an Assassination Site on the Dark Web - Carl Miller, Chris Monteiro
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DEF CON 33 - Kill List: Hacking an Assassination Site on the Dark Web - Carl Miller, Chris Monteiro

KEYNOTE: What Everyone Should Know About How Amazing Compilers Are - Matt Godbolt [C++ on Sea 2019]
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KEYNOTE: What Everyone Should Know About How Amazing Compilers Are - Matt Godbolt [C++ on Sea 2019]

Five things you didn't realise your CPU did for you
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Five things you didn't realise your CPU did for you

Meltdown and Spectre - Understanding and mitigating the threats - SANS DFIR Webcast
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Meltdown and Spectre - Understanding and mitigating the threats - SANS DFIR Webcast

Spectre and Meltdown attacks explained understandably
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Spectre and Meltdown attacks explained understandably

Compiler Explorer (part 1 of 2)
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Compiler Explorer (part 1 of 2)

"Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security" by Ivan Godard
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"Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security" by Ivan Godard

Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution
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Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution