BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T020000 RDATE:20171105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180227T060707Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180301T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180301T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180227T060707Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180227T060707Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250473318 DESCRIPTION: \;\nPortland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcemen t \;\n \;\nWho: Steve Dum \;\nWhat: Meltdown and Spectre Vulner abilities \;\nWhere: PSU\, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Lev el) \;\nWhen: Thursday\, March 1st\, 2018 at 7pm \;\nWhy: The purs uit of technology freedom \;\nStream: http://pdxlinux.org/live \;\ n \;\nSeemingly simultaneously multiple people discovered these vulne rabilities that exploit CPU data cache timing to cause protected informa tion to be leaked. I'll start with a review of modern CPU design featur es like parallel execution\, out of order execution\, speculative execut ion\, branch prediction\,cache access and side channels leading up to t he 3 flaws\, called Meltdown and Spectre. Including a simple understanda ble example of the flaws\, and show an actual Proof of Concept. \;\n& #13\;\nMany will head to the Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. after the m eeting. \;\n \;\nRideshares to the Lucky Lab available \;\n \;\nPLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on i ts mailing lists or at its meetings.\n\nTags: plug\, linux\, bsd\, unix\ , networking\, education\, devops\, open source\, beer\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250473318 URL:http://pdxlinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities LOCATION:Portland State University Fourth Avenue Building (FAB) Room FAB 86-01: 1900 Southwest 4th Avenue\, Portland OR 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR