Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 168,  August 5, 2022 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Sven Dietrich, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Yong Guan, Calendar Editor

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Commentary and Opinion

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

    • Russia Aims to Protect Its Cyberspace with Domestic Software
    • Big Guns to Respond to Hacking?
    • If U Cn R This ...
    • Apple Core Rot
    • Spy vs. Spy
    • US TikTok Users Get the Oracle Treatment
    • Italian Spyware Enters the Fray
    • A Billion Here, A Billion There, Soon the Whole Earth
    • Singular, but Not So Super

  • 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
  

 

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
      Cipher calendar announcements are on Twitter; follow "ciphernews"
    Requests for inclusion in the list should be sent per instructions.
      new calls or announcements added since Cipher E167 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • WPES 2022 21st Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, Held in conjunction with ACM CCS 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 7, 2022.
    Submission date: 1 August 2022.
  • SSS 2022 24th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Clermont-Ferrand, France, November 15-17, 2022.
    Submission date: 15 April 2022 and 5 August 2022.
  • CNS-CRW 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security - Cyber Resilience Workshop, Austin, TX, USA, Hybrid, September 26-28, 2022.
    Submission date: 7 August 2022.
  • CSET 2022 15th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, Preceding USENIX Security Symposium 2022, Virtual, August 8, 2022.
  • USENIX-Security 2022 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10–12, 2022.
  • SP 2023 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-26, 2023.
    Submission date: 1 April 2022, 19 August 2022, and 2 December 2022.
  • NordSec 2022 27th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, Reykjavik, Iceland, November 30 - December 2, 2022.
    Submission date: 22 August 2022.
  • SIGCOMM 2022 ACM SIGCOMM 2022, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 22-26, 2022.
  • CUING 2022 International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding, Held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022), Vienna, Austria, August 23-26, 2022.
  • PETS 2023 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Hybrid, July 10-14, 2023 (to be confirmed).
    Submission date: 31 May 2022, 31 August 2022, 30 November 2022, 28 February, 2023.
  • ASIACCS 2023 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-14, 2023.
    Submission date: 1 September 2022, and 15 December 2022.
  • SCN 2022 13th Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, Amalfi, Italy, September 12-14, 2022.
  • SEED 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design, Virtual, September 26-27, 2022.
  • CNS 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, Austin, TX, USA, Hybrid, September 26-28, 2022.
  • CNS-CRW 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security - Cyber Resilience Workshop, Austin, TX, USA, Hybrid, September 26-28, 2022.
  • ISC2 2022 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, Paphos, Cyprus, September 26-29, 2022.
  • USENIX Security 2023 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023.
    Submission date: 7 June 2022, 11 October 2022, and 7 February 2023.
  • SecureComm 2022 18th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, Kansas City, USA, October 17-19, 2022.
  • WPES 2022 21st Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, Held in conjunction with ACM CCS 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 7, 2022.
  • ACM CCS 2022 ACM CCS 2022, Los Angeles, USA, November 7-11, 2022.
  • ASHES 2022 6th Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security, Held in conjunction with ACM CCS 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 11, 2022.
  • SSS 2022 24th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Clermont-Ferrand, France, November 15-17, 2022.
  • ISPEC 2022 International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, Taipei, Taiwan, November 23-25, 2022.
  • PETS 2023 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Hybrid, July 10-14, 2023 (to be confirmed).
    Submission date: 31 May 2022, 31 August 2022, 30 November 2022, 28 February, 2023.
  • NordSec 2022 27th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, Reykjavik, Iceland, November 30 - December 2, 2022.
  • Elsevier Computers & Security, Special Issue on Benefits and Outlook of Program Analysis for Systems Security.
    Submission date: 1 December 2022.
  • SP 2023 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-26, 2023.
    Submission date: 1 April 2022, 19 August 2022, and 2 December 2022.
  • ASIACCS 2023 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-14, 2023.
    Submission date: 1 September 2022, and 15 December 2022.
  • USENIX Security 2023 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023.
    Submission date: 7 June 2022, 11 October 2022, and 7 February 2023.
  • NDSS 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, California, USA, February 27 - March 3, 2023.
  • PETS 2023 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Hybrid, July 10-14, 2023 (to be confirmed).
    Submission date: 31 May 2022, 31 August 2022, 30 November 2022, 28 February, 2023.
  • SP 2023 SP 2023 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-26, 2023.
  • ASIACCS 2023 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-14, 2023.
  • PETS 2023 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Hybrid, July 10-14, 2023 (to be confirmed).
  • USENIX Security 2023 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023.

 

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