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On Friday, February 16, at 12 noon in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Informatics, professors Manuel Acacio and Ricardo Fernández, professors of the Department of Engineering and Computer Technology of the University of Murcia, will give an informative talk with the title: "Meltdown and Specter Vulnerabilities. The talk is part of the dissemination activities of the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Murcia and is open to all interested public.
In June 2017, researchers from Google's security analysts team called Project Zero informed the main processor developers (Intel, AMD and ARM) about a series of attacks that, taking advantage of the speculative execution mechanisms they implement the current processors and the time of access to the data, were able to obtain sensitive information from other programs and from the operating system itself.
Almost at the same time, researchers at the Graz University of Technology had also discovered these vulnerabilities, which they named Meltdown and Specter, and which became public at the beginning of last January.
The aim of the talk is to show in a didactic way the fundamentals behind these attacks and the scope of them, as well as to discuss the solutions that are currently being deployed in order to mitigate them.
Ricardo Fernández Pascual and Manuel E. Acacio Sánchez are doctors in Computer Science and professors of the Department of Computer Engineering and Technology of the University of Murcia since 2007 and 1999, respectively.
In addition, they have made research stays at ST Microelectronics (Switzerland) and IBM TJ Watson (USA) respectively.
His research interests are focused on the improvement of different elements of the architectures of current multi-core processors.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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