An Introduction to Timing Attacks -- Modern Cryptography -- Superscalar Processors, Cache Memories, and Branch Predictors -- Time-Driven Cache Attacks -- Advanced Time-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers -- A Formal Analysis of Time-Driven Cache Attacks -- Profiled Time-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers -- Access-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers -- Branch Prediction Attacks -- Countermeasures for Timing Attacks.