Bon... J'ai assez de gommettes pour 4 heures de train ?

Over the years I've been asked many times for advice on pedagogy, what to read to learn more, etc. I've finally put together a bunch of materials into one blog post: Key Advice • Readings • Neuromyths • For Computer Scientists • Classroom Tips. Enjoy! parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...

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...

Authors provide a summary. It's called an abstract. You don't need a ✨ summary. This is ✨ bullshit.

Un groupe d'auteurs pluridisciplinaire présente une feuille de route au niveau mondial pour améliorer la visibilité et ré-utilisabilité de la production scientifique de logiciel et par là, son impact. ➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

#Distinction 🏆 | Félicitations à Clémentine Maurice, experte en cybersécurité, pour son prix Inria– @academiesciences.bsky.social jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs 2025 ! ➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/... 🤝 CRIStAL @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social @bloody-tangerine.bsky.social

Mood

I have a lot of thoughts about this, and none are good.

Time to get serious again. New blog post "Reviewer-Author Collusion Rings and How to Fight Them": andreas-zeller.info/2025/12/07/R...

@blackhoodie.bsky.social will have its own assembly at 39c3 congress this year 🥰 events.ccc.de/congress/202...

🎖️ Félicitations à Clémentine Maurice (@bloody-tangerine.bsky.social), Chargée de Recherche @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social, qui a reçu le Prix Inria @academiesciences.bsky.social des Jeunes Chercheuses et Jeunes Chercheurs 👇 www.hauts-de-france.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

📢 #DIMVA26 deadline extended to December 10th! Use the extra time and make it count. dimva26r1.hotcrp.com

Last Tuesday I was at the French Academy of Sciences! I am very happy and honored to have received the "Prix Inria – Académie des sciences jeunes chercheuses et jeunes chercheurs" @academiesciences.bsky.social

⏰ #DIMVA Cycle 1 Reminder — Only 4 Days Left! The deadline is December 3, 2025, so now is the time to finalize and submit your work. Don’t miss your chance to be included in Cycle 1! #CFP

J'ai jury de thèse dans une heure en visio et extinction totale de voix 🥲

Seventeen.

Not even a small scale election run by and for cryptographers can be held online without complexity rearing its ugly head. Go figure a general election!

I chatted with @hex-rays.bsky.social about how I found my place in the security industry, how @blackhoodie.bsky.social came to be, what our goals are and why community matters so much. hex-rays.com/blog/blackho...

Better: nobody sends me any emails before 2025 is over, please and thank you.

Squeeeee 🥳 I'll be teaching my Advanced Linux Malware Reverse Engineering class at RE//verse conference in 2026!! MORE Linux APT insides and peculiarities😍🥰🤩Pls share if you can🙃 shop.binary.ninja/products/re-...

USENIX WOOT Conference 2026: two submission deadlines this year! - Cycle 1: December 12, 2025 *only one month away* ! - Cycle 2: March 3, 2026 WOOT still has a SoK track and an "Up-and-coming track" (~Industry), CFP for details: www.usenix.org/conference/w...

Bioinformatics x cybersecurity: Christina Boucher and her colleague Sara Rampazzi uncovered a basic yet critical vulnerability in MinIONs through the MinKNOW software bioengineer.org/portable-gen...

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...