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How Performance Optimizations Shatter Security Boundaries
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Summary
Moritz Lipp explains how the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities exploit hardware optimizations to read otherwise inaccessible data processed on the computer. He explains the background to understand the underlying issue and the uncomfortable security consequences they bring, and why it is no coincidence that four teams of researchers discovered the same vulnerabilities in the same time frame.
Bio
Moritz Lipp is a researcher in information security at Graz University of Technology. He is pursuing his PhD with a strong focus on microarchitectural side-channel attacks on personal computers and mobile devices at the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications. His research has been published at top academic conferences and presented on different venues around the world.
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Apr 14, 2018