Securing the Systems of the Future - Techniques for a Shifting Attack Space
Ioannis Savidis, Swarup Bhunia, Gang Qu, Matthew J. Casto, Jeremy Muldavin · 2018
Panel Overview Known security vulnerabilities across the computing stack have caused significant concern, even requiring extensive countermeasures and system patches to address. As an example, the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, which were disclosed in January 2018, exploit architectural and circuit vulnerabilities to allow a malicious process access to secrets stored in the memory of another running program. Although software-based patches were distributed, true hardware solutions are only available through replacement.