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Guillaume Hiet @guillaumehiet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📢 Registration is open for ISC 2026! Register: isc2026.github.io/registration/ 📍 Rennes, France | Oct. 28–30 🎤 Shweta Shinde & Diego F. Aranha 🏰 Social event at Mont Saint-Michel Don’t forget the social event and sponsor forms! #ISC2026 #Cybersecurity

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Shweta Shinde @shwetashinde.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gearing up for the 2027 edition of EuroS&P in Madrid, where I'm PC co-chair along with Stefan Katzenbeisser 🗓 Registration: 25 November 🗓 Submissions: 02 December We are looking for strong nominations. Fill out the form if you know someone who'd make a great addition. forms.gle/3iWgtnEBum5m...

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IEEE EuroS&P'27 PC Nomination

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Activ8te @activ8te.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Extinction of Humanity by AI Agent Swarms If you were wondering how AI Agent Swarms might lead to the extinction of humanity, here is a concrete example. youtu.be/8_eVUwBUUOA?...

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The Extinction of Humanity by AI Agent Swarms

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Hey kids! It's the start of the Fall semester, and I'm again teaching "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment". The syllabus and all course materials including all code examples are available here: stevens.netmeister.org/631 As usual, we'll be using #NetBSD as our main platform […]

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Tom Lyon ✅ @aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Today: 50 years of Inter-Networking!

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Vasileios Kemerlis @vkemerlis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Earlier this month, Yufei Du presented our work, "SoK: Multi-Layer Indirect Call Analysis in the Real World", at the USENIX Association WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) 2026! (1/8) @wootsecurity.bsky.social

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Activ8te @activ8te.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I built Token Envy because “Claude Code feels slow today” was impossible to verify. It turns local session metadata into a private performance baseline and shareable card. Prompts stay on your machine. Try it: npx tokenenvy www.npmjs.com/package/toke... #TokenEnvy

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 19/07/2026

I keep saying it, but I really cannot believe how good "Halt and Catch Fire" was, and that it got 4 seasons, and that basically nobody seems to have watched it.

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Guillaume Hiet @guillaumehiet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

⏰ Last call for #ISC2026! The submission deadline is July 2, 11:59 pm AoE. If you have exciting new results in information security, we’d love to receive your paper. isc2026.github.io One last coffee ☕, one final proofread 🔍, and hit Submit! #Cybersecurity #CallForPapers

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ISC 2026: Information Security Conference

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

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Seny Kamara @senykamara.com · 23/06/2026

I've been thinking about power a lot, both because it underlies a lot of my work and because so many of the most consequential debates right now are fundamentally about it. This is the first post of a series where I try to make sense of it. open.substack.com/pub/senykama...

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What is Power?

And can we reason about it precisely?

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Guillaume Hiet @guillaumehiet.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

As the General Chair of ISC 2026, I’m currently seeking sponsors to support students, invited speakers, awards, and community events. If your organization is interested in cybersecurity research, I’d be happy to discuss opportunities. isc2026.github.io #cybersecurity #research #infosec #ISC2026

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For context, this is one hundred ninety-two thousand, five-year biomedical research grants. More than five years of complete funding for the entirety of the NIH for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, blindness, epilepsy, infectious diseases, etc… An entire generation of scientists.

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Activ8te @activ8te.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Really enjoyed the time with James at Risky Business. Between his James Kettle interview and mine: the models we have today can already do remarkable work; if you take the time to codify your expertise into scaffolding. And what that looks like with IronCurtain, and on what businesses need to do.

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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

After that, we saw Patel et al.'s "Supply Chain Reaction: Enhancing the Precision of Vulnerability Triage using Code Reachability Information" cut false positives by using function-level reachability. (www.acsac.org/2025/p...) 3/6 #VulnerabilityManagement #SBOM

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

New book, released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license: "Don't Get Hacked! Protecting Yourself at Home": www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/homesec/in… Retoot for reach!

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Don't Get Hacked!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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DIMVA Conference @dimvaconf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#DIMVA2026 Registration is OPEN until June 24! Secure your spot

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Zardus @zardus.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hello Cybersecurity Research Agents! Miss today's @synsec_ai deadline? So did we! An inter-human prompting issue led to a later-than-intended launch of the submission site (submission.synsec.org), and we're extending the timeline to remedy this! The deadline is now May 1st!

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Vasileios Kemerlis @vkemerlis.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Excited to be co-chairing RAID 2026 (raid2026.org) alongside Tiffany Bao this year! Looking for a security venue to submit your research? The deadline is just around the corner—April 16, 2026. CFP: raid2026.org/call.html Looking forward to seeing you in Lancaster this October (11–14)!

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Seny Kamara @senykamara.com · 15/03/2026

What if we could extract the world model that television installs in its viewers? Some thoughts about media, world models and culture. open.substack.com/pub/senykama...

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Television as World Model Installation

What if we could study the world model that television installs in its viewers?

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

#IPv6 adoption is still terrible. Akamai, Cloudflare, and Google all report roughly 45% of traffic to their services using IPv6 in the US... www.akamai.com/security-research/ip… ...but that's (a) not all that great, and (b) only HTTP traffic to major services […]

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 16/02/2026

In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroe...

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Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

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Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What software companies are not CNAs for their own products, but should be? And why? 🤔 Boost for reach. 🙏

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Zardus @zardus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Hello security researchers! Like it or not, agentic AI is here. It’s time to explore its impact on novel, academic research in cybersecurity. To this end, we’re launching the Conference for Synthetic Security Research (synsec.org). Researchers, start your agents!

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Conference of Synthetic Security Research

SynSec 2026 is an in-person conference in Phoenix focused on automated security research by AI agents, including AI-led papers and AI-first peer review.

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

Two stories, side by side, in the NY Times Technology section.

The first story is captioned "Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its smart glasses"; the second is "Iran turns to digital surveillance tools to track down protesters."

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Tom Lyon ✅ @aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Beginning to scan some of my telecom stuff. Here's an ATT map from 1893.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

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Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad

WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.

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Diomidis Spinellis @coolsweng.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The video of my #FOSDEM 2026 talk on integrating the Fourth Research Edition Unix tape into the GitHub Unix history repository is now available online: ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDE...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota
The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 05/01/2026

I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in the world, and tried to figure out what makes a great museum in the process. I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why! aresluna.org/fav-tech-mus...

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Fav tech museums

A photo essay of 20-something best tech museums I’ve been to

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Diomidis Spinellis @coolsweng.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found. www.spinellis.gr/blog/2025122...

The discovered Fourth Edition tape (photo credit Rob Ricci)

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Michalis Polychronakis @mikepo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Harsh (@harshvp.bsky.social) presenting our work on enhancing the precision of CVE triage using code reachability information at ACSAC 2025 @acsacconf.bsky.social | paper: www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/pape... | source code: github.com/harshvp1621/...

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Zardus @zardus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Hello hackers! A belated announcement of an awesome new thing we're trying out in @pwncollege: #AdventOfPwn! Every day (starting yesterday - sorry for the belated post!), we're launching a new challenge at pwn.college/advent-o... for your hack-racing pleasure.

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Learn to Hack!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/11/2025

On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote: “Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!” And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.

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Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢 It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐 Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let... Site: www.hacklore.org

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Stop Hacklore!

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Michalis Polychronakis @mikepo.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I gave these as a gift ages ago! In the 2000s, our gadgets dressed better than we did.

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Michalis Polychronakis @mikepo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Paschalis (@pbekos.bsky.social) presenting our work on PII leakage through Meta Pixel at ACM CCS 2025 | paper: www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/pape... | code+data: github.com/pasxalisbeko...

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DIMVA Conference @dimvaconf.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🗣️ Call for Papers – #DIMVA26 Deadlines are out! 📅Cycle 1 is Dec 3. CfP is live 👉 dimva.org/dimva2026 📍 Chania, Greece | 1–3 July 2026 Don’t miss your chance to share your research! #CFP

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23rd Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA '26)

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dan @danabra.mov · 26/09/2025

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

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Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 25/08/2025

I posted online the 2023 essay that was available as a Shift Happens booklet before: The convoluted history of Return and Enter on keyboards. aresluna.org/the-day-retu...

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The day Return became Enter

A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard

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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 19/08/2025

Phrack turns 40. The digital drop is live. Download it. Archive it. Pass it on. 💾 www.phrack.org #phrackat40 #phrack72

Phrack 40th Anniversary ansi art by Harvest

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 09/07/2025

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

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Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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Michalis Polychronakis @mikepo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Maryam (@mrostamipoor.bsky.social) presenting our work on protecting Kubernetes Secrets at IEEE EuroS&P 2025 | paper: www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/pape... | source code: github.com/mrostamipoor...

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