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One of the longest-running computer security conferences, more infos at: www.acsac.org This year‘s edition: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) ACSAC 2025 | December 8-12, 2025 | Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today is the day to get your submission ready for the Workshop on AI for Cyber Threat Intelligence (WAITI). The deadline is TODAY (AoE). All infos in the cfp:
waiti-workshop.github.io
WAITI
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
📣 Friendly reminder that the deadline for #ACSAC2026's Artifacts Competition is on 17th October 2026 (AoE). It is open to cybersecurity artifacts previously published in all peer-reviewed venues (conferences, journals), both in academia and industry:
acsac.org
Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition and Impact Award - IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
The IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) brings together cutting-edge researchers, with a broad cross-section of security professionals drawn from academia, industry, and government, gathered to present and discuss the latest security results and topics. With peer reviewed technical papers, invited talks, panels, national interest discussions, and workshops, ACSAC continues its core mission of investigating practical solutions for computer and network security technology.
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The final talk was Hellemans et al.'s "CarDS - Controller Area Network and Automotive Ethernet Realistic Data Set" on a realistic IVN dataset with CAN and AE attack traces. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 6/6 #VehicleSecurity #IntrusionDetection
Hellemans et al.'s "CarDS - Controller Area Network and Automotive Ethernet Realistic Data Set"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The session continued with Mahmod & Hicks's "Retain The Date: Detecting Recycled Chips in the Supply Chain through SRAM's Data Retention Behavior" on detecting recycled ICs via SRAM aging, reaching 97% accuracy. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 5/6 #SupplyChainSecurity #RecycledICs
Mahmod & Hicks's "Retain The Date: Detecting Recycled Chips in the Supply Chain through SRAM's Data Retention Behavior"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Third up was Stillman et al.'s "EM-Flow: Advanced Electromagnetic Control Flow Verification for Embedded Systems" demonstrating EM-based detection of subtle embedded control-flow attacks. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 4/6 #EmbeddedSecurity #SideChannels
Stillman et al.'s "EM-Flow: Advanced Electromagnetic Control Flow Verification for Embedded Systems"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Following that, we had Peters et al.'s "Revisiting Prime+Prune+Probe: Pitfalls and Remedies" revisiting stuck eviction sets and showing noise-plus-flushing doubles attack efficiency. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 3/6 #CacheAttacks #HardwareSecurity
Peters et al.'s "Revisiting Prime+Prune+Probe: Pitfalls and Remedies"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The session began with Guo et al.'s "Into the Unknown: Fuzzing CPU Non-standard Instructions with MystFuzz" on uncovering hidden CPU bugs via large-scale fuzzing of overlooked instructions. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 2/6 #HardwareSecurity #ProcessorSecurity #Fuzzing
Guo et al.'s "Into the Unknown: Fuzzing CPU Non-standard Instructions with MystFuzz"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For this #ThrowbackThursday, we will look at #ACSAC2025's Microarchitectural Attacks and Side-Channels session. The links in this thread will lead you to the paper pdfs and the slide decks, so be sure to check them out! 1/6
Looking back at ACSAC 2025
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📣 Friendly Reminder that the Workshop on AI for Cyber Threat Intelligence (WAITI) is still accepting submissions until 12th October 2026. It will be held as a pre-conference workshop at #ACSAC2026. You can find all details in the CfP:
waiti-workshop.github.io
WAITI
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two more weeks until the deadline for the #ACSAC2026 Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition and Impact Award: 17th Oct 2026. It is open to cybersecurity artifacts published in all peer-reviewed venues, both in academia and industry, not just at ACSAC.
acsac.org
Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition and Impact Award - IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
The IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) brings together cutting-edge researchers, with a broad cross-section of security professionals drawn from academia, industry, and government, gathered to present and discuss the latest security results and topics. With peer reviewed technical papers, invited talks, panels, national interest discussions, and workshops, ACSAC continues its core mission of investigating practical solutions for computer and network security technology.
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ending the session, we saw Alam et al.'s "R+R: Revisiting Static Feature-Based Android Malware Detection using Machine Learning" show simpler, well-tuned models can beat neural nets. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 6/6 #AndroidMalware #MalwareDetection #ML #AI
Alam et al.'s "R+R: Revisiting Static Feature-Based Android Malware Detection using Machine Learning"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fourth up was Montaruli et al.'s "One Detector Fits All: Robust and Adaptive Detection of Malicious Packages from PyPI to Enterprises" on a robust, adaptable detector that uncovered 346 malicious packages. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 5/6 #PythonSecurity #MaliciousPackages
Montaruli et al.'s "One Detector Fits All: Robust and Adaptive Detection of Malicious Packages from PyPI to Enterprises"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Then followed Froudakis et al.'s "Revealing the True Indicators: Understanding and Improving IoC Extraction From Threat Reports", introducing a hybrid, expert-validated IoC benchmark. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 4/6 #ThreatIntelligence #IoC
Froudakis et al.'s "Revealing the True Indicators: Understanding and Improving IoC Extraction From Threat Reports"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subsequently, we had Aldaihan et al.'s "Clouesau: A Hierarchal Multi Agent Approach For Autonomous Attack Investigation" introducing an LLM-driven multi-agent system for scalable autonomous attack investigation. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 3/6 #IncidentResponse #LLM #AI
Aldaihan et al.'s "Clouesau: A Hierarchal Multi Agent Approach For Autonomous Attack Investigation"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The session began with Wang et al.'s "R+R: From Claims to Crashes: A Systematic Re-evaluation of Graph-Based Network Intrusion Detection Systems" revealing reproducibility gaps, weak generalization, and easy evasion. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 2/6 #NetworkSecurity #IDS
Wang et al.'s "R+R: From Claims to Crashes: A Systematic Re-evaluation of Graph-Based Network Intrusion Detection Systems"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For this #ThrowbackThursday, we will look at #ACSAC2025's Malware and Intrusion Detection session. The links in this thread will lead you to the paper pdfs and the slide decks, so be sure to check them out! 1/6
Looking back at ACSAC 2025
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are you working on cyber threat intelligence with AI? Then you should consider submitting your work to the WAITI workshop which is held at #ACSAC2026! Find all the details on the workshop's website:
waiti-workshop.github.io
WAITI
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📣 Final call for poster and WiP submission to #ACSAC2026 📣 The deadline for posters and WiP submissions is tomorrow, 19th September. Better not play it close, register your submission soon:
acsac.org
Call for Posters and Works-in-Progress - IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
The IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) brings together cutting-edge researchers, with a broad cross-section of security professionals drawn from academia, industry, and government, gathered to present and discuss the latest security results and topics. With peer reviewed technical papers, invited talks, panels, national interest discussions, and workshops, ACSAC continues its core mission of investigating practical solutions for computer and network security technology.
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📣 Registration for #ACSAC2026 is now open 📣 You can now register for #ACSAC2026 on our website: www.acsac.org/2026/r... Early bird registration runs until 16th November. We are looking forward to seeing all of you in LA in December!
acsac.org
Registration - IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
The IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) brings together cutting-edge researchers, with a broad cross-section of security professionals drawn from academia, industry, and government, gathered to present and discuss the latest security results and topics. With peer reviewed technical papers, invited talks, panels, national interest discussions, and workshops, ACSAC continues its core mission of investigating practical solutions for computer and network security technology.
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Working on cybersecurity experiments and looking for a great outlet to publish work? Then we have good news for you: the CSET workshop, held at #ACSAC2026, has extended its deadline to September 17, 2026 (AoE). The CfP is on their website: cset26.isi.edu/cfp.html
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The deadline for the Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, held at #ACSAC2026, is just two weeks away. Get your papers ready for submission in time on September 10, 2026. Find all the details in the CfP: cset26.isi.edu/cfp.html
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The third paper in this session was Ben Hmida et al.'s "DeepProv: Behavioral Characterization and Repair of Neural Networks via Inference Provenance Graph Analysis" on using inference provenance graphs to analyze DNN behavior and boost robustness. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 4/6
Ben Hmida et al.'s "DeepProv: Behavioral Characterization and Repair of Neural Networks via Inference Provenance Graph Analysis"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Next up we had Dong et al.'s "MIZAR: Boosting Secure Three-Party Deep Learning with Co-Designed Sign-Bit Extraction and GPU Acceleration" showcasing faster secure sign-bit extraction, lower communication, and GPU memory savings. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 3/6 #SecureDeepLearning
Dong et al.'s "MIZAR: Boosting Secure Three-Party Deep Learning with Co-Designed Sign-Bit Extraction and GPU Acceleration"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The first paper in this session was Scheu-Hachtel & Zalonis's "Enhancing Noisy Functional Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning" on flexible, efficient private ML. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 2/6 #FunctionalEncryption #PrivacyPreservingML
Scheu-Hachtel & Zalonis's "Enhancing Noisy Functional Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For this #ThrowbackThursday, we will look at #ACSAC2025's Machine Learning Security I session. The links in this thread will lead you to the paper pdfs and the slide decks, so be sure to check them out! 1/6
Looking back at ACSAC 2025
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The last paper presented was Zhang & Kate's "No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains" exposing novel inter-block attacks with up to 94.81% success. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 5/5 #BlockchainSecurity #DistributedSystems
Zhang & Kate's "No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Next in the session was Khalil & Rahman's "xPoz-Hub - Privacy Infiltration in Payment Channel Hubs through Balance Probing and Transaction Discovery" exposing #PCH transactions via stealthy balance probing. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 4/5 #PaymentChannels #Blockchain
Khalil & Rahman's "xPoz-Hub - Privacy Infiltration in Payment Channel Hubs through Balance Probing and Transaction Discovery"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
After that, we saw Sawa & Suzaki's "Analysis of Encryption Key Zeroization from System-wide Perspective" expose lingering #AES keys in memory via FPGA-based live forensics. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 3/5 #Cryptography #OSSecurity #MemoryForensics
Sawa & Suzaki's "Analysis of Encryption Key Zeroization from System-wide Perspective"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Kicking off the session was Woo et al.'s "PIM-ORAM: Towards Oblivious RAM Primitives in Commodity Processing-In-Memory," bringing secure, parallel in-memory ORAM closer to practical use. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 2/5 #ObliviousRAM #SecureComputation
Woo et al.'s "PIM-ORAM: Towards Oblivious RAM Primitives in Commodity Processing-In-Memory"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
For this #ThrowbackThursday, we will look at #ACSAC2025's Privacy and Payment Security session. The links in this thread will lead you to the paper pdfs and the slide decks, so be sure to check them out! 1/5
Looking back at ACSAC2025
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The final talk in the session was Park et al.'s "OTABase: Enhancing Over-the-Air Testing to Detect Memory Crashes in Cellular Basebands," which uses spec-guided OTA testing to uncover baseband memory flaws. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 6/6 #CellularSecurity #LTESecurity #5GSecurity
ark et al.'s "OTABase: Enhancing Over-the-Air Testing to Detect Memory Crashes in Cellular Basebands"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Then came Xu et al.'s "PSan: Towards Hybrid Metadata Scheme for Efficient Pointer Checking" introducing a hybrid inline-shadow metadata sanitizer for faster, compatible memory safety. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 5/6 #MemorySafety #PointerSafety
Xu et al.'s "PSan: Towards Hybrid Metadata Scheme for Efficient Pointer Checking"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Next up was Achamyeleh et al.'s "AGNOMIN - Architecture Agnostic Multi-Label Function Name Prediction," an architecture-agnostic #GNN for predicting function names in stripped binaries across architectures. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 4/6 #ReverseEngineering #BinaryAnalysis
Achamyeleh et al.'s "AGNOMIN - Architecture Agnostic Multi-Label Function Name Prediction"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Continuing the session, we had Huang et al.'s "Beyond Driver Isolation - Triaging Threats against Driver Isolation" exposing prevalent interface flaws and guiding safer driver isolation. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 3/6 #KernelSecurity #DriverIsolation #OSSecurity
Huang et al.'s "Beyond Driver Isolation - Triaging Threats against Driver Isolation"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Launching the session was Habeeb et al.'s "It's a non-stop PARTEE! Practical multi-enclave availability through partitioning and asynchrony" on protecting time-sensitive enclaves from denial by an adversarial OS. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 2/6 #TEE #SystemSecurity #Enclaves
Habeeb et al.'s "It's a non-stop PARTEE! Practical multi-enclave availability through partitioning and asynchrony"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
For this #ThrowbackThursday, we will look at #ACSAC2025's second System Security session. The links in this thread will lead you to the paper pdfs and the slide decks, so be sure to check them out! 1/6
Looking back at ACSAC 2025
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you are working on Industrial Control Systems, you will know ICSS very well. The deadline for this year's workshop, held at #ACSAC2026, is coming up at the end of the month: August 28. Check the CfP on all the details to get your papers ready: www.acsac.org/2026/w...
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New at #ACSAC2026 this year, is the "Security and Safety of AI in Biotechnology" workshop (SecureBioAI). Sounds interesting? You can still submit your work there until August 15: securebioai.org/
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Are you working at the intersection of #healthcare and #cybersecurity? Then the HealthSec2026 is for you! It's held at #ACSAC2026 and the deadline has been extended, but is running out TODAY, so head over to their website and get ready for submission: publish.illinois.edu...
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wrapping up the session was Chen et al.'s "Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Authenticated Key Exchange Using Real-World Attributes," a scalable MPC-based #AKE for decentralized, attribute-private communication. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 5/5 #MultiPartyComputation
Chen et al.'s "Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Authenticated Key Exchange Using Real-World Attributes"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
After that came Zhao et al.'s "Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement," improving AAKA with privacy-preserving, traceable revocation. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 4/5 #MobileSecurity #Privacy #MobileTracking
Zhao et al.'s "Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Then followed Hacmon et al.'s "ProxyPrints: From Database Breach to Spoof", a practical drop-in revocable #fingerprint defense. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 3/5 #Authentication #SpoofingAttack #Cybersecurity #BiometricSecurity #CancellableBiometrics
Hacmon et al.'s "ProxyPrints: From Database Breach to Spoof"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
First up in the session was Lee et al.'s "False Promises of Passwordless: Defeating Windows Hello through TPM Misuses" exposing practical attacks that bypass #WindowsHello protections. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 2/5 #Passwordless #Cybersecurity #EndpointSecurity
Lee et al.'s "False Promises of Passwordless: Defeating Windows Hello through TPM Misuses"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For this #ThrowbackThursday, we will look at #ACSAC2025's first Authentication and Privacy session. The links in this thread will lead you to the paper pdfs and the slide decks, so be sure to check them out! 1/5
Looking back at ACSAC 2025
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The final presentation was King et al.'s "PP3D: An In-Browser Vision-Based Defense Against Web Behavior Manipulation Attacks" on a browser-based, privacy-preserving defense against web behavior-manipulation attacks. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 6/6 #SocialEngineering #OnlineScams
King et al.'s "PP3D: An In-Browser Vision-Based Defense Against Web Behavior Manipulation Attacks"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
After that came Liang et al.'s "Pathfinder: Exploring Path Diversity for Assessing Internet Censorship Inconsistency" revealing widespread ISP- and path-level #censorship inconsistencies within countries. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 5/6 #InternetCensorship #CensorshipMeasurement
Liang et al.'s "Pathfinder: Exploring Path Diversity for Assessing Internet Censorship Inconsistency"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The third paper in this session was Akhavani et al.'s "WAFFLED: Exploiting Parsing Discrepancies to Bypass Web Application Firewalls," which uncovers 1207 #WAF bypasses via parsing flaws. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 4/6 #WebApplicationFirewall #WebSecurity
Akhavani et al.'s "WAFFLED: Exploiting Parsing Discrepancies to Bypass Web Application Firewalls"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Next came Karl et al.'s "Uncovering Bigger Truths: Deobfuscating PHP with Phoebe" on reversing PHP obfuscation with 80% similarity and no syntax errors. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 3/6 #CodeObfuscation #ProgramAnalysis #ReverseEngineering
Karl et al.'s "Uncovering Bigger Truths: Deobfuscating PHP with Phoebe"
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Opening the session was Wang et al.'s "The 2FA Illusion: Uncovering Weak Links of Web Account Access in the Wild" on how #2FA can fall short in practice. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 2/6 #MFA #AccountSecurity
Wang et al.'s "The 2FA Illusion: Uncovering Weak Links of Web Account Access in the Wild"
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