Speculative Execution Courses and Certifications

IEEE

Spectre Attacks Exploiting Speculative Execution

Explore speculative execution vulnerabilities in modern processors, their impact on system security, and potential countermeasures to protect against Spectre attacks.

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

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Ret2spec- Speculative Execution Using Return Stack Buffers

Explore speculative execution security risks, focusing on return stack buffer vulnerabilities and potential countermeasures in modern CPUs.

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

secwestnet

Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities: From Spectre to Control Flow Hijack

Comprehensive exploration of speculative execution attacks, from original Spectre to new vulnerabilities. Clear explanations of exploitation challenges and processor vulnerabilities, with insights on high-resolution timers as potential weapons.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Query Scheduling in Advanced Database Systems - Lecture 7

Explore query scheduling in advanced database systems, covering process models, memory access, partitioning, and execution strategies for optimal performance.

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

ACM SIGPLAN

Lifting Compiler Security Properties to Stronger Attackers: The Speculation Case

Explore compiler security properties against speculative execution attacks, focusing on lifting guarantees to stronger attacker models and developing a formal framework for well-formedness conditions.

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

IEEE

Spook.js - Attacking Chrome Strict Site Isolation via Speculative Execution

Explore a novel attack on Chrome's Strict Site Isolation, leveraging speculative execution to bypass security measures and potentially compromise user data.

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

Black Hat

SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in System Calls for Breaking KASLR in macOS for Apple Silicon

Discover how SysBumps exploits speculative execution vulnerabilities in Apple silicon system calls to break KASLR protection in macOS, revealing security gaps in 25 system calls that can be leveraged to defeat KASLR in under 3 seconds.

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

ACM SIGPLAN

SNIP: Speculative Execution and Non-Interference Preservation for Compiler Transformations

Explore a new proof method for preserving non-interference across compiler transformations under speculative semantics, addressing security weaknesses in register allocation with an automated fix.

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

ACM SIGPLAN

SNIP: Speculative Execution and Non-Interference Preservation for Compiler Transformations

Explore a novel proof method for preserving non-interference across compiler transformations under speculative semantics, revealing security weaknesses in register allocation and proposing automated fixes.

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

YARN MapReduce Architecture and Advanced Programming

Master YARN and MapReduce architectures, optimization techniques, and advanced programming concepts for efficient large-scale data processing, including combiners, partitioners, and multithreading.

• Coursera
• 17 hours 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

IEEE

Cats vs. Spectre - An Axiomatic Approach to Modeling Speculative Execution Attacks

Explore an axiomatic approach to modeling speculative execution attacks, focusing on the comparison between Cats and Spectre vulnerabilities in computer systems.

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

Black Hat

Wrangling with the Ghost - An Inside Story of Mitigating Speculative Execution Side Channel Vulnerabilities

Explore Microsoft's approach to mitigating speculative execution vulnerabilities, including research, collaboration, and industry-wide efforts. Learn about Spectre, Meltdown, and strategies for robust security measures.

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

Linux Plumbers Conference

Mitigating Speculative Execution Attacks with ASI - Follow Up

Explore advanced techniques for mitigating speculative execution attacks using ASI, presented by security experts Junaid Shahid and Ofir Weisse.

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

MDS, Fallout, Zombieland & Linux

Explore CPU hardware vulnerabilities, their impact on system security, and Linux kernel mitigations with insights from a leading developer.

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

Alan Turing Institute

Meltdown and Spectre - Professor Mark Handley, UCL

Comprehensive explanation of Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in modern CPUs, their impact on computer systems, and mitigation strategies. Explores CPU architecture, speculative execution, and side-channel attacks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video