SAVE THE DATE! The organisation of the #pts26 edition is starting 😎 📣 Info we can already share are: - 🗓️ Tuesday June 30 to Thursday July 2, 2026 ✅ - 📍as asked in your feedback answers, we will be again at Université Catholique de Lille 🎉 Website & more are coming soon! 😘

Cannot think of any way to game their new system... nope, can't think of any possible issue with this But let's look at the bright side, and preemptively congratulate all our alphabetically-advantaged colleagues in Maths/CS heavy subfields, for an imminent/well deserved promotion

You have less than two weeks left to submit your paper for the final submission cycle at uASC 2026! 📅 Submission Deadline: November 4, 2025 👉 www.uasc.cc #microarchitecture #security #conference #uasc26

You prefer to organize your workshop in Europe? We've got you covered! We extended the call for workshops at EuroS&P 2026 to give you a few more days to make the move 😎 See you in Lisbon 🇵🇹 🌐 https://eurosp2026.ieee-security.org/cfw.html ⏱️ Deadline: Oct 2̶4̶t̶h̶ 30th AoE 📍Lisbon, PT

It's almost as if every university in the EU pivoting to the same strategy of "get more ERCs" isn't actually a strategy at all.

🌟 Want to help shape #MADWeb 2026? Nominate yourself for the Program Committee! Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 ⏰ Consider applying even if you don't have extensive reviewing experience! forms.gle/UovLWS78aa3t...

I do not understand why a reputable conference would willingly give AI-generated reviews to authors.

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... 🚀

Have a Furby 0-day? A Juicero exploit? A bewitched 🪄PoC for some cursed, End-of-Life 👻 product that your friends keep begging you to stop reverse engineering & touch grass? We see you: your real friends are at @DistrictCon Junkyard. 9 days to submit your most unhinged bugs!

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

Ok, since many people are obviously not reading the article, here's a pertinent figure from it showing the top actions to reduce emissions.

While it is important to work on futuristic threats such as Quantum cryptanalysis, backdoors in standardized cryptographic protocols, etc. - the unfortunate reality is that the vast majority of real-world attacks happen because basic protection is not enabled. Lets not take our eyes off the basics.

You are an Early Career Researcher in #cybersec? Here is an opportunity: The AEC chairs of @USENIXSecurity '26 are looking for (self)nominations for the Artifact Evaluation Committee. Deadline: October 17th, 2025, so sign up soon! @chwress.bsky.social, @kumarde.bsky.social, @aurore-fass.bsky.social

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Discord user IDs getting leaked is the entirely predictable consequence of requiring platforms to do age verification. That data never goes away, it spreads. In this case, into appeals in a breached customer support database. And predictably, it can get worse. www.404media.co/the-discord-...

📢 CFP for DIMVA 2026 is out! First deadline: 03 December 2025. Daniele Cono D'Elia and I look forward to your submissions! dimva.org/dimva2026/ If you would like to serve on the PC, do not forget to fill in the (self-) nomination form, lnkd.in/dRQ48dH7 RTs appreciated! 🙌

We are still looking for (self) nominations for USENIX Security '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee! Please help us spread the word 🚀 You can *Promote and Support Open Science* by filling out the nomination form by Friday, October 17: forms.gle/sMCJHww2qcUK...

Wheeeee the fine folk of @bsidespdx.bsky.social will have @blackhoodie.bsky.social back this year, with a training about microarchitectural security by the one and only @barbieauglend.bsky.social blackhoodie.re/BSidesPDX2025/

uASC 2026 will take place on February 3, 2026, in Leuven, Belgium, hosted by KU Leuven. Have you submitted your paper yet? 🤔 Cycle 2 Paper Submission Deadline is November 4, 2025! 👉 uasc.cc #uasc26

Dearest folks from @bsidespdx.bsky.social are hosting @blackhoodie.bsky.social again this year! Come spend a day with me and CPU bugs :) 🐞 blackhoodie.re/BSidesPDX2025/

The call for workshops at EuroS&P 2026 is officially open! EuroS&P is the premier, European forum for security & privacy research. The main conference is accompanied by a series of workshops. Be part of it! 😎 🌐 https://eurosp2026.ieee-security.org/cfw.html ⏱️ Deadline: Oct 24th AoE 📍Lisbon, PT

🗣️ Call for Papers – #DIMVA26 Deadlines are out! 📅Cycle 1 is Dec 3. CfP is live 👉 dimva.org/dimva2026 📍 Chania, Greece | 1–3 July 2026 Don’t miss your chance to share your research! #CFP

And that leaves France with ZERO international night trains. None. Aucun. 👏 Well done SNCF and the French Government 🤨 #CrossBorderRail

Tomorrow at 6:30 PM the EU Green Parliament group holds a webinar on #ChatControl act.greens-efa.eu/chatcontrol

Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress and please submit! The deadline for all submissions for the stages is October 24. #39C3 will take place from December 27 to 30 www.ccc.de/en/updates/2...

Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'ESR : participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...

So my "Best of Follows" is only showing posts by @weratedogs.com, but I think it's fair enough.

You have previously published a cybersecurity artifact in a peer-reviewed venue? Then submit it to #ACSAC2025's Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition! The deadline for submissions has just been extended to 17th October 2015. All infos on our website:

No award in 2025? Here is another chance: @chwress.bsky.social, @kumarde.bsky.social, and I are looking for (self) nominations for @USENIXSecurity '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee! Remember to fill the nomination form by Friday, Oct 17: forms.gle/sMCJHww2qcUK... And help us spread the word! 🚀

🚨 EURECOM is recruiting a PhD student (and master-level interns) on verification and testing at the hardware-software boundary 🌄 Amazing location between sea & mountain 💡 3-year position 🌍 International environment (no French required!) You're a curious and motivated student? Reach out!

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

L'enfant aime les gâteaux. L'enfant aime le yaourt. L'enfant aime pas le gâteau au yaourt 🤷‍♀️

x86 suffers from what you would call “long tail syndrome”. 

A huge amount of legacy instructions used <0.01% of the time. 
 SHRINK is a cool paper proposing that we *emulate* the old stuff instead. 

AKA Instruction Recycling.

📣 To all #students who want to attend #ACSAC2025 in Hawaii 📣 It's time to hand in your conferenceship applications. The deadline on 26th September is approaching! Read all details on our website:

DIMVA 2026 is happening! Nominate yourself or your colleagues to join the Program Committee (PC). Review Cycles: mid Dec - Feb & late Feb - Apr. Submit PC nominations here: dimva.org/pc-nominations Be part of #DIMVA26’s success — Looking forward to seeing the nominations submitted. #PC

As last year, #ACSAC2025 will hold a Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition and Impact Award! Not only artifacts of #ACSAC papers, but instead ALL cybersecurity artifacts can be submitted! Deadline is 19th September. All details on our website:

Congratulations to USENIX Security 2025 AE: 🏆 Distinguished Artifact Awards 🏆 Distinguished Reviewer Awards ⭐ Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition 🥷 Ninja Reviewer Recognition secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec202... And thank you all for your help! CC @pvadrevu.bsky.social Tiago Heinrich

C'est le retour de Pépite ! Et cette fois c'est pour vous parler de la place des femmes dans le monde du numérique 💻 Pourtant majoritaires jusqu'au années 70, elles semblent avoir disparu du secteur jusqu'à représenter seulement 24 % des emplois. Petit retour historique sur ce phénomène ⬇️

Want to learn reverse engineering? There'll be a free, women*-only BlackHoodie workshop from October 6th to 9th in Paris! Topics: • Linux memory forensics 🕵️‍♀️ (by Sonia) • Web app and mobile app pentesting 🕸️📱 (by Paula) • iOS reversing 🍎 (by me)

This year OOPSLA initiated a new Reserve Reviewer Policy to help keep reviewer loads manageable. We've written up the design principles, implementation details, and observations. We look forward to feedback and to continued experimentation by other venues! blog.sigplan.org/2025/09/09/t...

J'ai fait un hiatus de deux ans sans enseignement post congé mat. Le collègue qui me renseigne sur la procédure me dit "Mais il y a bien sûr une autorisation de cumul" et... J'ai tellement pas envie de me re-battre avec les RH pour un document qui n'existe plus depuis des années.

The AI authorship issue is real. We've caught papers that looked OK but had references to works by the *journal editors* that *do not exist*. Like, don't send us papers citing papers we know we didn't write, right?

Ou alors. On pourrait aussi employer le même nombre d'admin et les chercheurs et chercheuses feraient de la recherche au lieu de faire des tâches administratives. Je pose l'idée là, vous en faites ce que vous voulez.

The best thing about having a toddler is seeing people spitting out hot takes like "ChatGPT and everyone who uses it are garbage" and instead of engaging, I just think "I'm too tired for this shit"

The fourth presentation was Ayoub et al.'s "BlueScream: Screaming Channels on Bluetooth Low Energy," exploring real-world firmware attacks via side-channel vulnerabilities in #BLE devices. (www.acsac.org/2024/p...#BLE 5/6 #SideChannelAttack #WirelessSecurity

ANNUAL REPORT Salty is back from vacation and well rested! ⛱️ So our mascot dove right into writing Pass the SALT annual report and is very happy to share it with you: 2025.pass-the-salt.org/annual-report/ 🥰 #pts25

2024 was a significant year for decompilation, constituting a possible resurgence in the field. Major talks, the thirty-year anniversary of research, movements in AI, and an all-time high for top publications in decompilation. Join me for a retrospective: mahaloz.re/dec-progr...

Ben où ils sont tous les gens qui disent qu’on travaille 6 mois par an, 12h par semaine, en étant payé comme des rois ? Vous voulez pas venir prendre les places ? www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...