I have run into situations where people want to set duress passwords on things and there are really three possibilities.

Maybell Romero@maybell.bsky.social · last wk.

What an interesting crim pro hypo! I had no idea duress passwords exist and it kind of makes me want to put one on my phone. techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/u...

Dus je kunt flexijobben bij je eigen werkgever mits 5/5 Dan is het echt totaal onbegrijpelijk dat een klein bijberoep zo disproportioneel wordt belast.

Where these tools shine is literature searches. I’m increasingly of the opinion that we need to write papers for LLMs to read. It’s frustrating that many ePrint sites actually block these tools. This is the first tool that can find the “small result” you left as a footnote in Appendix B that I need.

Nominate yourself to help review papers for USENIX Security 2027! sec-rms.com/submit-appli... (or rms.swag.cispa.de/submit-appli... ). Deadline: May 28, 2026. We're looking for both senior and junior people. See Andrei Sabelfeld's LinkedIn post for more info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We found that Wi-Fi client isolation can often be bypassed. This allows an attacker who can connect to a network, either as a malicious insider or by connecting to a co-located open network, to attack others. NDSS'26 paper: www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u... GitHub: github.com/vanhoefm/air...

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6mo ago

ICONIC

this is one of the most amazing papers I have ever read eprint.iacr.org/2026/058.pdf

The NDSS Symposium 2026 program is live. With 265 accepted papers and 8 workshops, the quality of security research this year is staggering. It is a testament to the community's dedication to keeping the digital world safe. www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2026/pro... 1/4

The US government is considering punishing American scientists who worked with Chinese researchers *years ago, retroactively*.

Roland Hatzenpichler@environmicrobio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

I've found AI tools to be quite useful too look for related work. And apparently so do others, searching Google Scholar for "utm_source=chatgpt.com" gives 13,900+ hits ;) scholar.google.com/scholar?star...

Russia is blocking mobile phones being brought back into the country from abroad for 24 hours, in an attempt to mitigate drone attacks. Seems like this can probably be bypassed using relay "worm hole" attacks, though it adds some complexity. novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...

One-day data block introduced on Russian SIM cards being brought back into country — Novaya Gazeta Europe

The Russian authorities have begun blocking mobile phones being brought back into the country from abroad for 24 hours in an attempt to undermine Ukrainian drone strikes, the Ministry of Digital Devel...

novayagazeta.eu

woo! $10 MM USD in grants from ICANN... amazing. And great grantees here! "ICANN Announces First Cohort of Grant Program Recipients" www.icann.org/en/announcem...

ICANN Announces First Cohort of Grant Program Recipients

Following an extensive applicant review period, ICANN has announced some of the projects that will receive funding in the ICANN Grant Program’s first cycle.

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Last chance to (self-) nominate for USENIX Security'26 Artifact Evaluation Committee! You should expect a low load of ~1 artifact for functionality/reproducibility assessments per cycle (max 3 for the whole year). Please support Open Science and fill the form by Oct 17: forms.gle/WoYRX4govNY1... 🚀

(Self-)Nomination for the USENIX Security '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC)

For the seventh year, USENIX Security allows the evaluation of artifacts that support a paper: software, hardware, evaluation data and documentation, raw measurement data, raw survey results, mechaniz...

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I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

The West has a blindspot when it comes to alternative CPU designs.

 We’re so entrenched in the usual x86, ARM, RISC-V world, that most people have no idea what’s happening over in China.

 LoongArch is a fully independent ISA that’s sorta MIPS…sorta RISC-V…and sorta x87!

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!!

I'm thrilled to announce that after months of intensive work, the complete materials for my Applied Cryptography course at the American University of Beirut are now finished: both Part 1 (Provable Security) and Part 2 (Real-World Cryptography)!

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

Our research on open tunneling servers got nominated for the Most Innovative Research award :) The work will be presented by Angelos Beitis at Black Hat and also at USENIX Security Brief summary and code: github.com/vanhoefm/tun... Paper: papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2025-t...

Also in Poland. It was used by Russia in 2023 to stop about 20 trains.

Suspicious Train Disruptions in Poland: Is Russia Pulling the Levers? | RAILTARGET

Over the past weekend, Poland experienced an unusual series of train stoppages that have raised serious national security concerns.

railtarget.eu

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/...

Reminder that the MSCA postdoctoral program exists. If you have a PhD and want to work in a European lab, you have until September to apply. Just contact them now. ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... ==> Possibly no 6GHz for Wi-Fi 7

Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi

Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

arstechnica.com

Reminder to apply to be part of the artifact evaluation committee of NDSS'26! And share with your colleagues :) We'll likely close this form around the end of next week.

Mathy Vanhoef@vanhoefm.bsky.social · last yr.

All papers should publish their code. Help realize this by becoming an artifact reviewer at NDSS'26, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You'll review artifacts of accepted papers. We especially encourage junior/senior PhD students & PostDocs to help. Distinguished reviews will get awards!

All papers should publish their code. Help realize this by becoming an artifact reviewer at NDSS'26, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You'll review artifacts of accepted papers. We especially encourage junior/senior PhD students & PostDocs to help. Distinguished reviews will get awards!

Self-nomination for the Artifact Evaluation Committee of NDSS 2026

We are looking for members of the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) of NDSS 2026. The Network and Distributed System Security symposium adopts an Artifact Evaluation (AE) process allowing authors t...

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Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

All papers should publish their code. Help realize this by becoming an artifact reviewer at NDSS'26, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You'll review artifacts of accepted papers. We especially encourage junior/senior PhD students & PostDocs to help. Distinguished reviews will get awards!

Self-nomination for the Artifact Evaluation Committee of NDSS 2026

We are looking for members of the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) of NDSS 2026. The Network and Distributed System Security symposium adopts an Artifact Evaluation (AE) process allowing authors t...

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Calling researchers: EU #grantconsultancy 🚨 Have you worked with private grant consultants for EU research funding (Horizon, EIC, etc.)—Have you had positive or negative experiences? 📩 Share your story: kaspernollet@gmail.com / thordeyaert@hotmail.be (@thordeyaert.bsky.social) 🔁 RT appreciated!