Spectre Courses and Certifications

Center For Computational Relativity and Gravitation

SpECTRE: A Relativistic Astrophysics Code

Explore SpECTRE, a cutting-edge relativistic astrophysics code, and its applications in computational relativity and gravitation research.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Transient-Execution Attacks: Understanding Meltdown and Spectre

Explore transient-execution attacks like Meltdown and Spectre. Implement attacks, understand out-of-order execution pipelines, and learn about potential mitigations in native and virtualized environments.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Exploiting Modern Microarchitectures - Meltdown, Spectre, & Other Hardware Attacks

Explore modern microarchitecture vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre. Learn about hardware attacks, their mitigations, and the industry's approach to balancing performance and security.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Linux Plumbers Conference

Attack Vector Controls for Speculation Mitigations

Explore advanced techniques for mitigating speculative execution vulnerabilities in Linux systems, focusing on attack vector controls and their implementation.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Exploiting Inaccurate Branch History in Side-Channel Attacks

Uncover novel CPU vulnerabilities through branch prediction analysis, revealing three new attack primitives including Spectre variants and BiasScope for cross-privilege exploitation.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Spectre, Meltdown, & Linux

Explore Meltdown and Spectre security issues, their impact on Linux, and learn how the kernel community addressed these vulnerabilities to ensure system protection.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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Spectre in the Real World - Leaking Your Private Data from the Cloud with CPU Vulnerabilities

Discover how Spectre CPU vulnerabilities can bypass cloud security, leaking data across virtual machines despite mitigations, demonstrated through a $151,515 bug bounty discovery.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Black Hat

Behind the Speculative Curtain - The True Story of Fighting Meltdown and Spectre

Insider account of the urgent response to Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, revealing the challenges and decisions faced by cybersecurity experts during a critical disclosure situation.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

IEEE

SpecHammer: Combining Spectre and Rowhammer for New Speculative Attacks

Explore innovative security vulnerabilities combining Spectre and Rowhammer, uncovering new speculative attack techniques and their potential impacts on modern computing systems.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Getting to Know Spectre and Meltdown Checker

Explore the Spectre & Meltdown Checker tool, its implementation, design flows, and capabilities for assessing CPU vulnerabilities and enhancing system security.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Spectre and Meltdown vs. Real-Time - Measuring Mitigation Costs

Explore the impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on real-time systems. Quantify performance costs using benchmarks, focusing on latency and determinism in embedded environments and hypervisors.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

KVM Forum

guest_memfd for Non-Confidential VMs and Spectre Protection

Explore guest_memfd's application beyond confidential computing to harden traditional VMs against Spectre-style attacks and enhance security in non-confidential environments.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Computer Security: A Hands-on Approach

926 ratings at Udemy

Attacks and defense: buffer overflow, race condition, dirty COW, meltdown and spectre , shellshock, format string

• Udemy
• 12 hours 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

ExplainingComputers

Spectre & Meltdown - What You Need to Know

Comprehensive overview of Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, explaining their impact on CPUs, potential risks, and mitigation strategies for enhanced computer security.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Electronics Repair School

HP Spectre 13-aw0054 Dead, Not Charging, Board Repair - The Box Can't Be Trusted Anymore

Master laptop motherboard diagnostics and repair techniques through hands-on troubleshooting of a non-charging HP Spectre, learning advanced circuit analysis methods.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video