Data poisoning is best tackled at its root, i.e., by learning a clean (backdoor-free) model despite a poisoned training data. @qzhao903.bsky.social presents a defense at ICML 2026, in which we reformulate this strategy as a coreset selection problem, giving rise to "Anti-Backdoor Coreset Selection"

Congratulations!👍🎉 The paper “Anti-Backdoor Coreset Selection via Cumulative Entropy” by Q. Zhao and C. Wressnegger has been accepted to ICML 2026, which will take place in Seoul from July 6–11. Congratulations to the authors on this outstanding achievement!🎆

🏆 Forschung zur KI-Regulierung: T.-T.-Prof. Dr. iur. Frederike Zufall und Dr. iur. Gustavo Gil Gasiola wurden mit Forschern des Max-Planck-Instituts für Sicherheit und Privatsphäre mit dem CNIL/EHESS-Award 2026 ausgezeichnet. 🎉 Zum Artikel: www.informatik.kit.edu/11147_15306.... #kitinformatik

We're pleased to announce that #SaTML2027 will be in Reykjavik, Iceland! Thanks to General Chair Giovanni Apruzzese for making the arrangements. The conference will be in early May 2027. Get your submissions ready: the deadline will be September 29, 2026. Details on the new website: satml.org

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

Offensive AI Is Here. Now What? Join us at the next BIFOLD Colloquium with Dr. Yisroel Mirsky (April 30, 2026; 4 PM; BIFOLD) More: t1p.de/tbqes @tuberlin.bsky.social

This video was a complete joy to make. Here's a short preview, but next time you're looking to sit down for 45 minutes of math and art, take a look at the full version on YouTube: youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY

my "unable to decrypt message" shirt is getting a lot of confused looks at the matrix-themed party

💭Ever dreamed of serving on the PC of one of the coolest security conferences in academia? Now is your chance. Nominate yourself and your capable friends for the Program Committee of @acsacconf.bsky.social 2026 🧑‍💻 forms.gle/SMbphtLggYcE...

ACSAC 2026 PC nomination

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KIT Successfully Defends Its Title as University of Excellence! “We are overjoyed,” says Professor Jan S. Hesthaven, President of KIT. www.kit.edu/kit/english/... #KITKarlsruhe #UniversityOfExcellence #ScienceForImpact #ExcellenceStrategy

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 (https://synsec.org). Researchers, start your agents!

Almost in Karlsruhe for this talk. Looking forward to some great discussions with the KIT crypto and security community.

KIT Graduate School Cyber Security@kitcybersec.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are back with another KASTEL Distinguished Lecture! This time Prof. Dr. Kenneth Paterson from ETH Zurich will talk about 'Cryptography in the Wild'. As always there will be time for Q&A afterwards and everybody is welcome. @kennyog.bsky.social @kitinformatik.bsky.social

Although we had secretly planned a small extension, we realized that the initial deadline was off by one… month 😵‍💫 Thus, we are now extending the submission deadline for the "Explainable AI and Security" (XAISEC) workshop: 🌐 https://xaisec-workshop.org ⏱️Deadline: J̶a̶n̶ ̶2̶9̶t̶h̶ Feb 26th, 2026 (AoE)

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

Ken Childs@thekenchilds.com · 7mo ago

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

Francesco and I have a special Christmas gift for you 🎁🎅 With the help of @kastel-labs.bsky.social, we've started a new workshop on "Explainable AI and Security" co-located with EuroS&P 2026, for which we seek submissions. Details at: 🌐 https://xaisec-workshop.org ⏱️Deadline: Jan 29th, 2026 (AoE)

🎉 Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Klaus-Robert Müller! Der #TUBerlin- Wissenschaftler und Direktor von @bifold.berlin erhält den renommierten Leibniz-Preis der @dfg.de. Er gilt als Pionier des Maschinellen Lernens und prägt die interdisziplinäre #KI- Forschung seit Jahrzehnten. (1/2) Weiterer Infos 👇

Leibniz-Preis für Klaus-Robert Müller

TU-Forscher und Co-Direktor des BIFOLD wird mit dem renommiertesten Forschungsförderpreis in Deutschland geehrt / Fördersumme 2,5 Millionen Euro.

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Welcome to BIFOLD. The computer scientist Prof. Dr. Christian Wressnegger from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology strengthens BIFOLD’s expertise at the intersection of AI, data management, and IT security. www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @chwress.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @kit.edu

Looking forward to have @gianlucastringhini.com over at @kit.edu for our beloved distinguished lecture series 🤗 🥳

KIT Graduate School Cyber Security@kitcybersec.bsky.social · 9mo ago

On Wednesday, November 5th, as part of our KASTEL Distinguished Lecture Series Prof. Gianluca Stringhini, PhD from Boston University will talk about ‘Improving the Moderation of False Information and Influence Campaigns on Social Media’. Everybody is welcome and stay around for the Q&A afterwards.

You prefer to organize your workshop in Europe? We've got you covered! We extended the call for workshops at EuroS&P 2026 to give you a few more days to make the move 😎 See you in Lisbon 🇵🇹 🌐 https://eurosp2026.ieee-security.org/cfw.html ⏱️ Deadline: Oct 2̶4̶t̶h̶ 30th AoE 📍Lisbon, PT

You are an Early Career Researcher in #cybersec? Here is an opportunity: The AEC chairs of @USENIXSecurity '26 are looking for (self)nominations for the Artifact Evaluation Committee. Deadline: October 17th, 2025, so sign up soon! @chwress.bsky.social, @kumarde.bsky.social, @aurore-fass.bsky.social

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

The call for workshops at EuroS&P 2026 is officially open! EuroS&P is the premier, European forum for security & privacy research. The main conference is accompanied by a series of workshops. Be part of it! 😎 🌐 https://eurosp2026.ieee-security.org/cfw.html ⏱️ Deadline: Oct 24th AoE 📍Lisbon, PT

We are expanding our social media presence! Find us on LinkedIn, Instagram @kitcybersec and Mastodon @kitcybersec@social.kit.edu. Stay tuned for regular updates on events and information on #CyberSec at #KITKarlsruhe. While you are here, have you checked out our website cybersec.kcist.kit.edu yet?

Congratulations to USENIX Security 2025 AE: 🏆 Distinguished Artifact Awards 🏆 Distinguished Reviewer Awards ⭐ Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition 🥷 Ninja Reviewer Recognition secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec202... And thank you all for your help! CC @pvadrevu.bsky.social Tiago Heinrich

LLM-powered code assistants might suggest vulnerable code to specific user groups. Old news? Well, in contrast to prior attacks of this kind, our "Generalized Adversarial Code Suggestions" (AsiaCCS 2025) impose no restrictions on the vulnerabilities. 🌐 https://intellisec.de/research/adv-code (1/3)

Yikes. Turns out you can send a plaintext radio signal to cause any train in the USA to do an emergency break. The original 'security' was just a checksum, no encryption or authentication. Reporting this took them 12 years (!) because the vendor dismissed it initially www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

Haven't seen this on Bluesky yet: S&P 2027 will take place in Montreal, Canada!

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

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I will be giving a talk at the MPI-IS @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social in Tübingen next week (March 12 @ 11am). The talk will cover my group's overall approach to trust in ML, with a focus on our work on unlearning and how to obtain verifiable guarantees of trust. Details: is.mpg.de/events/speci...

Next week Tuesday, March 11th 2025, we are going to have another Security & Privacy Lunch 🍔 We meet at 12:00 at Oxford Pub https://www.oxfordpub.de/ Everybody is welcome. See you there! 🤗