TechSNAP - Episodes Tagged with “Branchscope Attack”

web02.fireside.fm Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:19:25 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) TechSNAP - Episodes Tagged with “Branchscope Attack” https://techsnap.systems/tags/branchscope%20attack Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:00:00 -0700 Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems. en-us episodic Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Jupiter Broadcasting Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems. no Jupiter Broadcasting chris@jupiterbroadcasting.com Episode 363: Tips from the Top https://techsnap.systems/363 2f57aaaa-4b64-4c6f-809f-121a3710a543 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Getting started or getting ahead in IT is a moving target, so we’ve crowd sourced some of the best tips and advice to help. 35:13 no Getting started or getting ahead in IT is a moving target, so we’ve crowd sourced some of the best tips and advice to help. Plus a tricky use of zero-width characters to catch a leaker, a breakdown of the new BranchScope attack, and a full post-mortem of the recent Travis CI outage. Getting started or getting ahead in IT is a moving target, so we’ve crowd sourced some of the best tips and advice to help.

Plus a tricky use of zero-width characters to catch a leaker, a breakdown of the new BranchScope attack, and a full post-mortem of the recent Travis CI outage.

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Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters — Zero-width characters are invisible, ‘non-printing’ characters that are not displayed by the majority of applications.
Incident Post-Mortem and Security Advisory — On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:04 UTC a database query was accidentally run against our production database which truncated all tables.
As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered — New attack focuses on a different part of the branch prediction system.
BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor - asplos18.pdf
Mathew has a neat use for Terraform
Del says Learn just one thing...
Mat Man has some great tips
Ben says you might already be doing it
Mr S with a advice from recruiting stand point.

]]> Getting started or getting ahead in IT is a moving target, so we’ve crowd sourced some of the best tips and advice to help.

Plus a tricky use of zero-width characters to catch a leaker, a breakdown of the new BranchScope attack, and a full post-mortem of the recent Travis CI outage.

Sponsored By:

Digital Ocean: Apply our promo snapocean after you create your account, and get a $10 credit. Promo Code: snapocean
Ting: Save $25 off a device, or get $25 in service credits! Promo Code: Visit techsnap.ting.com
iXSystems: Get a system purpose built for you. Promo Code: Tell them we sent you!

Links:

Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters — Zero-width characters are invisible, ‘non-printing’ characters that are not displayed by the majority of applications.
Incident Post-Mortem and Security Advisory — On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:04 UTC a database query was accidentally run against our production database which truncated all tables.
As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered — New attack focuses on a different part of the branch prediction system.
BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor - asplos18.pdf
Mathew has a neat use for Terraform
Del says Learn just one thing...
Mat Man has some great tips
Ben says you might already be doing it
Mr S with a advice from recruiting stand point.

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