At USENIX Security? Then check out: Studying the Use of CVEs in Academia, won distinguished paper award www.usenix.org/conference/u... Discovering and Exploiting Vulnerable Tunnelling Hosts, won most innovative research Pwnie @ DEFCON www.usenix.org/conference/u... Big thanks to all co-authors!!

you might find inspiration in joern's recent offensivecon talk. slides are at 0day.click/parser-diff-..., video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_K...

OffensiveCon25 - Joernchen - Parser Differentials: When Interpretation Becomes a Vulnerability

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The Call for Contributed Talks is now open for RWC 2026! And the deadline for submissions is now Oct. 10, 2025. rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...

RWC 2026 call for papers

Real World Crypto Symposium

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We found a new vulnerability in TLS. It's a variant of the ALPACA attack that bypasses current countermeasures. Relativly low impact - but great insight! Check it out: opossum-attack.com

We just opened the Call-for-Papers for the German OWASP Day 2025. The event will be held November 25th-26th in Düsseldorf. god.owasp.de/2025/cfp.html We're looking for all sorts of presentations about web security and beyond for an audience of builders, breakers and defenders.

Slides of my talk titled "Lattices give us KEMs and FHE, but where are the efficient lattice PETs? -- By Example of (Verifiable) Oblivious PRFs" given at spiqe-workshop.github.io are here: github.com/malb/talks/b... Thanks @kennyog.bsky.social and @jurajsomorovsky.bsky.social for inviting me.