Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 161,  May 31, 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 Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems by Ross Anderson

  • NewsBits: 

    • File Transfer Appliance Leveraged for Fun and Profit (4 articles)
    • Facebook's Neverending Privacy Failure (2 articles)
    • Emissions Testing Hits 404
    • Fed Chair Looks Deep Into the Eyes of Cyber and Sees the Abyss
    • The FBI is Your Uninvited IT Staff
    • Software Hacks Defeat Oil Infrastructure (4 articles)
    • WiFi's Unfixable Insecurities
    • How Bad Crypto Machines Became Good Business

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
   

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
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      new calls or announcements added since Cipher E160 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • IEEE Security & Privacy, Special Issue on Security and Privacy Issues of Home Globalization.
    Submission date: 31 May 2021
  • TrustData 2021 12th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data, New York, NY, USA, October 1-3, 2021.
    Submission date: 1 June 2021
  • OID 2021 Open Identity Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1-2, 2021.
  • SEED 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design, Virtual, September 20-21, 2021.
    Submission date: 4 June 2021
  • CPSS 2021 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, Held in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS 2021, Hong Kong, China, June 7, 2021.
  • USENIX-Security 2022 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10-12, 2022.
    Submission date: 8 June 2021, 12 October 2021, and 1 February 2022
  • EUROUSEC 2021 European Symposium on Usable Security, Virtual, October 11-12, 2021.
    Submission date: 11 June 2021
  • VizSec 2021 18th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, Virtual, October 27, 2021.
    Submission date: 21 June 2021
  • WiMob 2021 17th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, Bologna, Italy, October 11-13, 2021.
    Submission date: 21 June 2021
  • SecMT 2021 International Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies, Held in conjunction with ACNS 2021, Kamakura, Japan, June 21-24, 2021.
  • Cloud S&P 2021 3rd Workshop on Cloud Security and Privacy, Held in conjunction with ACNS 2021, Kamakura, Japan, June 21-24, 2021.
  • CSF 2021 34th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Virtual, June 21-25, 2021.
  • ASHES 2021 5th Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security, Co-located with ACM CCS 2021, Seoul, South Korea, November 19, 2021.
    Submission date: 25 June 2021
  • ACM WiSec 2021 14th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Virtual, June 28 - July 1, 2021.
  • WPES 2021 20th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, Co-located with ACM CCS 2021, Seoul, South Korea, November 15, 2021.
    Submission date: 16 July 2021
  • DBSec 2021 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, Virtual, July 19 – 20, 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.
  • NDSS 2022 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10–12, 2022.
    Submission date: 21 May 2021 and 23 July 2021
  • CSR 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, Rhodes, Greece, July 26-28, 2021.
  • CSET 2021 14th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, Virtual, August 9, 2021.
  • USENIX Security 2021 30th USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 11–13, 2021.
  • Digital Communications and Networks, Special Issue on Privacy Preserved Learning in Distributed Communication Systems.
    Submission date: 15 August 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.
  • BASS 2021 4th International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security, Held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), Vienna, Austria, August 17-20, 2021.
  • IWCC 2021 10th International Workshop on Cyber Crime, Held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), Vienna, Austria, August 17-20, 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.
  • SP 2022 43nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Virtual, May 21-26, 2022.
    Submission date: 15 April 2021, 19 August 2021, and 2 December 2021
  • Secure Smart World, Special Issue on Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
    Submission date: 1 September 2021
  • SecureComm 2021 17th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, Canterbury, Great Britain, September 6 - 9, 2021.
  • EuroSP Workshops 2021 6th IEEE EuroS&P Symposium, Vienna, Austria, September 7-11, 2021.
  • ESORICS 2021 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Darmstadt, Germany, October 4-8, 2021.
  • International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Wearable Devices for Emerging Expert Systems.
    Submission date: 30 October 2021
  • ACM-CCS 2021 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Seoul, South Korea, November 14-19, 2021.
  • SP 2022 43nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Virtual, May 21-26, 2022.
    Submission date: 15 April 2021, 19 August 2021, and 2 December 2021
  • HOST 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, Washington DC, USA, December 5-8, 2021.
 

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