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SUMMARY:Spectre and Meltdown - Aaron Hutton\, Magdalene College
DTSTART:20181114T190000Z
DTEND:20181114T193000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:When they were publicly disclosed Spectre and Meltdown were de
 scribed as an “absolute disaster” and prompted statements and blog pos
 ts from numerous tech companies describing the effects on their customers.
  The reason: Spectre and Meltdown both broke the fundamental security assu
 mption of isolation and were both independent of the Operating System on w
 hich they were being run. Not only were the vulnerabilities not the result
  of a bug in software\, but they could be exploited by Javascript code run
 ning in a browser and affected around 80% of modern desktops\, including a
 ll but two variants of Intel processors produced after 1995[1].\n\nThis ta
 lk will describe the background and details of one variant of Spectre\, it
  will then describe Meltdown and will finish with a look at the interestin
 g implementation details required for a working attack. \n\n[1] https://me
 ltdownattack.com/
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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