Florian Adamsky
Florian Adamsky attended the first Chaos Communication Congress in 2000 (17C3). He co-founded Chaostreff Regensburg at some point, before becoming immersed in academia, from which he has not found his way out. As a result, he has been serving as a professor of IT security at Hof University of Applied Sciences since 2019. In 2020, he established his own small research group called System and Network Security (SNS), which focuses on phishing, anonymity networks, and hardware-based side-channel attacks, such as Rowhammer.
Session
The density of memory cells in modern DRAM is so high that disturbance errors, like the Rowhammer effect, have become quite frequent. An attacker can exploit Rowhammer to flip bits in inaccessible memory locations by reading the contents of nearby accessible memory rows. Since its discovery in 2014, we have seen a cat-and-mouse security game with a continuous stream of new attacks and new defenses. Now, in 2024, exactly 10 years after Rowhammer was discovered, it is time to look back and reflect on the progress we have made and give an outlook on the future. Additionally, we will present an open-source framework to check if your system is vulnerable to Rowhammer.