As of yesterday's Usenix Security notifications, I have received a cumulative 199 paper rejections in my research career! One more to 200! 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Reminder! Today is the submission deadline for the first ever Conference of Synthetic Security Research @synsec_ai, so unless you want to gamble on a(nother) extension, warm up those agents and get those papers submitted!

Can we translate all C to Rust? The susceptibility of C to memory corruption has long been a cybersecurity pain point, and coding agents can free us of it. Read on for my recent experiments in this space, and apt & docker repos that you can pull rust-converted libraries from!

Hello hackers! The first DEF CONAcademy mentoring session at DEF CON Singapore is happening NOW! Drop by the DEFCON Academy area and ask us any pressing questions you might have about academic cybersecurity; we'll be here!

Hello hackers! DEF CONAcademy is LIVE at DEF CON Singapore! For those who're new to the concept, DEFCON Academy is a first-stage education community. We have laptops, material, and l337 h4X0R mentors standing by to help you learn. Drop by and LEARN TO HACK with us!

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!

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!

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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The room is FULL for @the_robwaz’s talk about Speculative Execution and micro architectural vulnerabilities at @DEFCON Academy (but I only photographed the man himself)!

Spread the word! @DEFCON’s brand new @DEFCONAcademy is giving out shirts, coins, and stickers! And also KNOWLEDGE! So tell your friends (including you, @DEFCON account!) and come by room 235 today to LEARN TO HACK and GET SOME SWAG!

The @the_robwaz is setting up for his @DEFCONAcademy talk on Race Conditions at 1pm in room 235! At @DEFCON? Come learn about concurrency errors in software!

Hello Hackers! Earned a @pwncollege belt? Other amazing achievements? Hanging out @DEFCON? Come by @DEFCONAcademy and get belted at 5pm!

Hello Hackers! Come to @DEFCON Academy (room 235) for a live episode of our pwn.talk starting NOW!

Standing room only at @x3ero0’s @DEFCON Academy talk about Getting into CTF!

Come to @DEFCON Academy to see @TheWyrmSuperior talk about buffer overflows, starting in two minutes!

We are going full speed in @DEFCON's @DEFCONAcademy! Two talks down (Intro to Linux and Intro to Assembly), with the next talk (Intro to Buffer Overflows) at 3pm. Meanwhile, learners are learning through hands-on challenges between the talks. Come by and LEARN TO HACK in W235!

Me waiting for the @DARPA AI Cyber Challenge result announcement after having interviewed all the teams:

Hello hackers! Excited for @DEFCON tomorrow? Make sure to stop by @DEFCONAcademy, a brand new community effort to provide a path for everyone to LEARN TO HACK. Read on for the details! 🧵

Hello hackers! Another @pwncollege semester ends, continuing @ASU's @ace_inst's never-ending quest to revolutionize the way hackers learn to become productive members of the cybersecurity community. Read on to learn what this means for students and Capture the Flag! 🧵

@defcon Quals process: Days 0-2: hack Day 3: party, sleep, (new:) reassure the kids I won't be gone next weekend Day 4: close hundreds of tabs, terminals, IDA instances of chals. Terminate the angr script that never did finish before the CTF ended. Finally, inner peace.

Today, I participated in @DEFCON Quals #CTF with @Shellphish! After missing last year's quals due to family traditions (defcon.social/@Zardu...), it was great to be back! We got 5th place and (unless our calculations are off) are heading to finals!

And AZ CTF comes to a close! Congrats to the winners! And, of course, everyone can now tackle the chals on #pwncollege at: pwn.college/az-ctf-2...

The first edition of the Arizona CTF (this one open just to undergrads in the state's various colleges) is running right now! Just over 100 undergrads pwning at the moment across AZ, 13 challenges solved, 10 challenges and 5 hours to go. First prize is $1337. Hype!

Hello aspiring cybersecurity professors! ASU is hiring faculty in all security disciplines and all levels, and the first deadline is TONIGHT! Apply at apply.interfolio.com... and don't worry --- you can still apply tomorrow if tonight is impossible :-)

Hello hackers! In case you missed it at @DEFCON: @perribus, @adamdoupe, @the_robwaz, @TheConnorNelson, @TheDarkTangent and I announced @DEFCONAcademy! I kept meaning to spread the word, and now that there's hype (news.asu.edu/2024103...), it's time for the thread! Read on! 🧵

After a year on sabbatical, I'm about to teach again! ASU CSE 365 (Intro to Cybersecurity) stream starting, with @TheConnorNelson, imminently at twitch.tv/pwncollege!

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We did it!!!! @Shellphish qualifies for the AIxCC finals!!!

Also! Are you a @pwncollege-belted hacker? We’ll do a belt ceremony ON STAGE at the end of the talk! Come to Track 2 right now!

Hello hackers! @perribus and I are about to announce @DEFCONAcademy at 4:30pm on Track 2 at @DEFCON! Can't make it to the talk? Feel the FOMO! But don't worry, we miiiiight make a thread later.

48 hours later, the @pwncollege V8 Exploitation #QuarterlyQuiz has still not been competed! There's still a chance to nab that 🥇 out from under @ky1ebot's nose! Give it a try at pwn.college/quarterl... !