Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 160,  March 22, 2021 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Sven Dietrich, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Yong Guan, Calendar Editor

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Sven Dietrich's review of The Design of Rijndael: The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen

  • NewsBits:  Announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

    • Best Science of Cybersecurity Award Nominations
    • Basic Insecurity
    • MalMac
    • The Best SpyWare is NSA's
    • How Many Engineers Does It Take to Make a SolarWinds Hack?
    • Finger Pointed at Microsoft's Inadequate Defenses
    • The SolarWinds Hack, In Detail
    • No Fair Exchange
    • Where Server Flaws Go, Ransomware follows
    • Federal Reserve Outage
    • Business Transparency
    • The Gift of Gab Hacking

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 
• Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
  No new postings.
 

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
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    Requests for inclusion in the list should be sent per instructions.
      new calls or announcements added since Cipher E159 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • CODASPY 2021 11th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Baltimore-Washington, DC Area, USA, March 22-24, 2021.
  • ACM WiSec 2021 14th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Virtual, June 28 - July 1, 2021.
    Submission date: 25 March 2021
  • IoTSPT-ML 2021 11th International Workshop on Security, Privacy, Trust, and Machine Learning for Internet of Things, Held in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2021), Athens, Greece, July 22, 2021.
    Submission date: 26 March 2021
  • DBSec 2021 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, Virtual, July 19 – 20, 2021.
    Submission date: 29 March 2021
  • SecureComm 2021 17th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, Canterbury, Great Britain, September 6 - 9, 2021.
    Submission date: 31 March 2021
  • SecMT 2021 International Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies, Held in conjunction with ACNS 2021, Kamakura, Japan, June 21-24, 2021.
    Submission date: 5 April 2021
  • Cloud S&P 2021 3rd Workshop on Cloud Security and Privacy, Held in conjunction with ACNS 2021, Kamakura, Japan, June 21-24, 2021.
    Submission date: 15 April 2021
  • HOST 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, Washington DC, USA, December 5-8, 2021.
    Submission date: 27 April 2021
  • ESORICS 2021 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Darmstadt, Germany, October 4-8, 2021.
    Submission date: 5 January 2021 and 5 May 2021
  • ACM-CCS 2021 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Seoul, South Korea, November 14-19, 2021.
    Submission date: 20 January 2021 and 6 May 2021
  • CSET 2021 14th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, Virtual, August 9, 2021.
    Submission date: 11 May 2021
  • CUING 2021 5th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding, Held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), Vienna, Austria, August 17 – 20, 2021.
    Submission date: 13 May 2021
  • ENS 2021 4th International Workshop on Emerging Network Security, Held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), Vienna, Austria, August 17 – 20, 2021.
    Submission date: 13 May 2021
  • WiMob 2021 17th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, Bologna, Italy, October 11-13, 2021.
    Submission date: 15 May 2021
  • SP 2021 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Virtual, May 23-27, 2021.
    
  • SafeThings 2021 5th IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things, Held in conjunction with IEEE S&P 2021, Virtual, May 27, 2021.
    
  • WTMC 2021 6th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, Held in conjunction with IEEE S&P 2021, Virtual, May 27, 2021.
    
  • SADFE 2021 6th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, Held in conjunction with IEEE S&P 2021, Virtual, May 27, 2021.
    
  • OID 2021 Open Identity Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1-2, 2021.
    
  • CPSS 2021 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, Held in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS 2021, Hong Kong, China, June 7, 2021.
    
  • CSF 2021 34th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Virtual, June 21-25, 2021.
    
  • CSR 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, Rhodes, Greece, July 26-28, 2021.
    
  • USENIX Security 2021 30th USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 11–13, 2021.
    
  • EuroSP Workshops 2021 6th IEEE EuroS&P Symposium, Vienna, Austria, September 7-11, 2021.
    
 

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