In this talk, we present Meltdown. Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. We show how any program can access system memory, including secrets of other programs and the operating system.
By Daniel Gruss + Michael Schwarz + Moritz Tipp
Full abstract: https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/briefings/schedule/#meltdown-basics-details-consequences-10691