Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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Michael Schwarz

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Michael Schwarz is a tenured faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbruecken, Germany, with a focus on microarchitectural side-channel attacks and system security. He obtained his PhD with the title "Software-based Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Restricted Environments" in 2019 from Graz University of Technology. He holds two master's degrees, one in computer science and one in software engineering with a strong focus on security. He was part of the discovery of multiple CPU vulnerabilities, including Meltdown, Spectre, LVI, PLATYPUS, ZombieLoad, ÆPIC Leak, CacheWarp, Collide+Power, and GhostWrite. He was also part of the KAISER patch, the basis for Meltdown countermeasures now deployed in every modern operating system under names such as KPTI or KVA Shadow.


Events

Title Day Room Track Start End
Cascading Spy Sheets: The Privacy & Security Implications of CSS in Emails
Saturday K.4.201 Modern Email 14:00 14:30