SaTML is looking for a host for #SaTML2027! If you're interested in bringing SaTML to a city near you, please fill out this form by April 15! 🏘️🏙️🏡🌆 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The program chairs for #SaTML2027 will be Fabio Pierazzi (@fbpierazzi.bsky.social) and Florian Tramèr! We're in for a great conference under their leadership.

Breaking news from NDSS26: it seems that we have won a Distinguished Paper Award for "Decompiling the Synergy: An Empirical Study of Human-LLM Teaming in Software Reverse Engineering" A giant thank you to my amazing co-authors and everyone who participated in the experiment!

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)

Deadline approaching soon: February 15th, 2026 Are you a UK/Home student interested in doing a PhD researching hybrid AI threats at the intersection of cyber and physical security? Then you should apply to my PhD project within the CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk!

PhD students in AI: Bell Labs Cambridge is hiring Summer 2026 interns in Social & #ResponsibleAI. Paid, 3 months, visa support, publication-focused. Work on AI ethics, risk, governance, and human values. Deadline: Jan 11, 2026.

[1/n] Opportunity to apply for a Fully-funded PhD Position (Home/UK candidates only) in the "CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk" at @ucl.ac.uk and @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk , with myself and Anna Maria Mandalari (deadline: Feb 15, 2026)

Congratulations to the winners of #ACSAC2025's third test of time award: "Cujo: Efficient Detection and Prevention of Drive-By-Download Attacks" by Konrad Rieck, Tammo Krueger, and Andreas Dewald published in ACSAC 2010. 👏👏👏

[1/n] Competitive opportunity for a 4-year PhD scholarship at UCL Computer Science Deadline: Jan 5, 2026 @ 1pm We're seeking exceptional PhD applicants with expertise in AI and cybersecurity to work with myself and @lcavallaro.bsky.social. #PhD #Cybersecurity #AI #UCL @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk

"AI predicts rain. We predict trouble!" The BIFOLD paper was recognized with a Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... #MLSky #cybersecurity #Meteorology #ClimateScience #AIForScience #AIWeather #SecureAI

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... 🚀

Combining data from different sources and relying on AI creates a new attack surface. We need to fix this before AI forecasts become the norm. 🧳 Code: github.com/mlsec-group/... 👉 Paper: mlsec.org/docs/2025-cc... 🤗 Distinguished Paper Award at CCS with Erik Imgrund & @eisenhofer.bsky.social 4/4

For our first session today, Fabio Pierazzi talked about trends and challenges in AI for systems security. What an exciting start to Day 2 of GSW'25! #GSW25 #AI #SystemSecurity

Join the Graz Security Week from Sep 1 to 5! with @sahar-abdelnabi.bsky.social, Jo Van Bulck, Maria Eichlseder, Georg Fuchsbauer, @sublevado.bsky.social, @fbpierazzi.bsky.social, Kaveh Razavi, Christian Rossow, Yang Zhang securityweek.at (system security, side channels, AI security, & cryptography)

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

Second UELA PhD application round open, to students eligible for UK Home fees. Deadline: June 2nd at 1pm

Second application round open with deadline June 15th.

The #ACSAC2025 CFP is out! Send us your great work!

Here’s an extended version of my PhD defense talk about our work on *representational alignment between humans 🧠 and machines 🤖 for computer vision* that I gave two weeks ago at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...

A few days left to apply for this PhD opportunity (due April 15) @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk Read details below

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten vielerorts schwieriger geworden. In #Wien wurden die Bedingungen stetig besser. Ich bin überzeugt, dass dieser Trend anhält, die Unterstützung dafür stark bleibt und werde meinen Teil beitragen. Ich lebe und forsche gerne in Wien! #IchForscheGernInWien 📸 Luiza Puiu

I have an open PhD position at @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk on applying traffic-analysis resistance techniques to protect industrial control systems. Full funding is available for home-fee status students (deadline 15 April). www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...

And pretty please, let's move S&P from San Francisco and NDSS from San Diego. Thanks 😘

What she said! Can we please stop being so US-centric as a community? I understand that it is hard for US-based people to leave the US right now but for anyone else going to the US for a conference always has been tricky, now more so than ever.

The article refers to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, but I can’t see any description of how this falls into the type of complaints the IPT handles. Can anyone more qualified work out what’s actually going on?

On March 6th, 2025 (6pm-8pm UK time), there will be a PhD Open Evening, as an hybrid event held online via Zoom and in person at "Room 225, Central House," 14 Upper Woburn Place, WC1H 0NN, London. You may register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phd-hybrid... /cc @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

[1/n] Opportunity to Apply for a Fully-Funded "UK Home Studentship" for a PhD in the "CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk" on "Risk Assessment and Mitigation of Threats to AI-enabled Devices in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems" within @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

Please share: our security & privacy research unit @informatics.tuwien.ac.at @tuwien.at is looking for a project manager for support in all kinds of funding matters! Call is open until March 20, and afaik terms are flexible. Reach out if you have any questions! jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/248232?c...

I will be at Cambridge on Tuesday 25 February talking about my research, "Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities." Watch along, here: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

I'm happy to share that our paper "Learning the Backdoor to Remove the Backdoor" got accepted at #AAAI2025 as oral presentation (top 5%). Great job @qzhao903.bsky.social 💪 @kastel-labs.bsky.social @kit.edu (1/5) 🗞️ https://intellisec.de/pubs/2025-aaai.pdf 💻️ https://intellisec.de/research/harvey

Reminder: STAST EuroS&P workshop submission deadline is 13 March 2025.

After many requests, we have extended abstract/paper submission deadlines by a few days ! Abstract by March 3 and full papers by March 6. Full information here: worma.gitlab.io/2025/ (w/ @simone-aonzo.bsky.social and Vera Rimmer)

[1/5] Opportunity to Apply for a Fully-Funded "UK Home Studentship" for a PhD at @ucl.ac.uk Computer Science and @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk (deadline: Feb 21, 2025) (Please note that this opportunity is open only to candidates eligible for "UK Home" fees.)

Interested in doing a PhD in Computer Vision Super-Tools in my group at UCL? If you count as a "UK Home" resident, see my PhD student vacancies here: www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Bros....

The 7th IEEE Workshop on Attackers and CyberCrime Operations is on its way! This year happening in beautiful Venice, 🇮🇹, June 30th! We look forward for your excellent submissions on all things cybercrime and cyber-attackers. Submissions due Feb 20, see website 🔗 full details ➡️ wacco-workshop.org

I spoke to @fattoquotidiano.bsky.social on whether British police have the capability to extract data from a @grapheneos.org phone without the passcode. As far as is publicly disclosed, Cellebrite can’t break the protection but less is known about competing forensics tools.

Super excited to share this honor and add that this paper was also a runner-up for the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in PETS 2024 🎉. Congrats to Carlotta and the whole team, and shoutout to Florian Hahn for kickstarting this project at @utwente.bsky.social as Carlotta's Master thesis!

Hooked on computer security, adversarial learning, or even both? 🤩 The BIFOLD Graduate School has 10 open PhD positions! Join us in vibrant Berlin to work with top-notch researchers on machine learning, data management, and, of course, security! 🔗 mlsec.org/jobs.html#jobs

The 4th edition of WoRMA is officially scheduled for June 30th, co-located with IEEE EuroS&P in magnificent Venice in Italy! Website and CfP: worma.gitlab.io/2025/ Deadline: February 20th, 2025 Spread the word!

Funded opportunity for a PhD studentship on Trustworthy Machine Learning in the UCL InfoSec Research Group. Further details are in the thread below (application deadline 28 January).

[PhD position] Want to work at the intersection of Program Analysis and Machine Learning for Trustworthy AI for Malware Detection? Competitive fully-funded PhD position at UCL CS to work with @fbpierazzi.bsky.social and myself! Explore the wonders of AI for systems security... done right!

[1/5] #Opportunity to Apply for a Fully-Funded PhD in Trustworthy ML for Malware Detection at UCL CS @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk Deadline: Jan 28, 2025 Are you passionate about ML and Systems Security? Are you curious to understand root causes performance decay of ML-based malware detection over time?

Happy to share that I received the Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award at ACSAC ✨ Always happy to support open artifacts for the community!

Later this week, we present Makrut at @acsacconf.bsky.social 2024. Achyut found a way to conduct explanation-aware backdoors against popular black-box XAI techniques. (1/3) 💻️ xaisec.org/makrut 🗞️ intellisec.de/pubs/2024-ac...

Is your GPU trustworthy? 🤔 Today, Julian presents our work on implanting machine learning backdoors in hardware at @acsacconf.bsky.social. Our backdoors reside within a hardware ML accelerator, manipulating models on-the-fly and invisible from outside. mlsec.org/docs/2024-ac... 1/3

Great presentations by all four #ACSAC2024 Cybersecurity Artifacts Impact Award finalists! 👏👏👏 A difficult decision for the jury indeed!

I have an opening for several Ph.D. positions at TU Wien. Topics of interest include formal methods for security (e.g., for crypto protocols and machine learning analysis), web security, and blockchains. Apply online at https://buff.ly/4fVSmBI by 19/12/2024

The UCL Information Security Research Group is now on Bluesky