📢 We hit snooze! You have until June 30th to get your paper in. 📄

NDSS 2027 is looking for volunteers to join the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). If you care about reproducibility & open science, we would be glad to have you on board. All sorts of backgrounds welcome & no prior experience required. Interested? Self-nominate here: forms.gle/3UydnaYP6vUC...

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!

MetaCRiSP’s deadline got pushed back a week to Feb 19 AoE - you’ve got 10 days!

Call for Papers: MetaCRiSP Workshop (Security & Privacy). A venue for metascience and critical reflection on research and peer-review practices in security & privacy. Workshop: May 21, 2026 · San Francisco. (47th IEEE S&P) Deadline: Feb 12, 2026. More here: metacrisp.org @mu00d8.bsky.social

📣 Call for papers! If you're interested in all things metascience, consider submitting to the 1st Workshop on Metascience and Critical Reflections in Security & Privacy (MetaCRiSP), co-located with IEEE S&P. Deadline's Feb 12, AoE. CfP & details: metacrisp.org

Happy New Year's Eve! Our tool for placing decompilation (symbols, source, types) into the debugger (gdb) is now officially integrated into pwndbg! You will have access to it (decomp2dbg) in your next default install of pwndbg 🎉 Happy hacking:

Do LLMs actually help hackers reverse engineer and understand the software they want to exploit? We ran the first fine-grained human study of LLMs + reverse engineering. To appear at NDSS 2026. Interested? Some quick findings in 🧵👇 Paper: www.zionbasque.com/f...

Must-read for fuzzing folks (read: tooling/algorithms/academia) by Addison Crump addisoncrump.info/research/wha...

Interested in #fuzzing the V8 heap sbx? Check out the paper from @nbars.bsky.social et. al. accepted at @acm_ccs 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2509.07757

📢 Excited to announce that the results on BaseBridge, our project on improving cellular baseband emulation, are going public this week. Dyon will present at IEEE S&P on Monday 3pm, while David and I will be on stage at @offensivecon.bsky.social on Saturday 11am with even more details! 1/6

🔥 No fuzz drivers needed. Our paper on injecting greybox fuzzers into running systems at user-defined amplifier points (in-vivo fuzzing) was accepted at #ICSE25! 📝 mboehme.github.io/paper/ICSE25... 🧑‍💻 github.com/OctavioGalla... (subject to AE) //Lead by Octavio Galland (former #MPI_SP intern).

🔮 ACM TOSEM Perspective Paper on Software Security in 2030 (Invited). 📝 mpi-softsec.github.io/papers/TOSEM... Collab w/ Eric Bodden, Tevfik Bultan, Cristian Cadar, Liu Yang, and Giuseppe Scanniello

Tenure Track @ MPIs in Computer Science (SP, SWS, INF). 🖊️ shlink.mpi-sws.org/faculty 📅 01. December 2024 www.mpi-sp.org/8521/tenure-...