Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 172,  March 22, 2023 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Sven Dietrich, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Yong Guan, Calendar Editor

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Commentary and Opinion and News

  • Sven Dietrich's review of the book, Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us by Eugene H. Spafford, Leigh Metcalf, and Josiah Dykstra

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

    • Did They Or Didn't They? Only Their Lockbit Knows for Sure
    • I Thought You Patched the VMware Bug ...
    • Inglis, Outglis
    • Election Meddling as a Service
    • Russia Revs Up Cyber Attacks Against Germany

  • 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
  

  The Department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers three open positions for assistant/associate professor in the area of security, related to theory, vulnerability research, and AI.

  • Assistant/associate professor tenure track in security theory
  • Assistant professor tenure track in security vulnerability research/
  • Assistant professor career track in security and AI
  Deadline for applications is April 13, 2023.

 

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

• Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar Calendar of Security and Privacy Related Events maintained by Hilarie Orman, The Call-For-Papers List is maintained by Yong Guan.
    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 E171 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

• FSE 2023 29th Fast Software Encryption, Beijing, China, March 20-24, 2023.
• WTMC 2023 8th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, Co-located with 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2023), Delft, The Netherlands, July 7, 2023.
  Submission date: 22 March 2023.
• RAID 2023 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, Hong Kong, October 16-18, 2023.
  Submission date: 23 March 2023.
• FHE 2023 2nd Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Co-located with Real World Crypto 2023, Tokyo, Japan, March 26, 2023.
• Journal of Systems Architecture, Special Issue on Distributed Learning and Blockchain Enabled Infrastructures for Next Generation of Big Data Driven Cyber-Physical Systems.
  Submission date: 31 March 2023.
• CODASPY 2023 ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Charlotte, NC, USA, April 24-26, 2023.
• C&ESAR 2023 Cybersecurity of Smart Peripheral Devices (Mobiles / IoT / Edge), Rennes, France, November 21-22, 2023.
  Submission dates: 26 April 2023, 10 May 2023, and 30 August 2023.
• OSNeHM 2023 1st International workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse, Co-located with the Web Conference 2023, Austin, Texas, USA, April 30 - May 4, 2023.
• HOST 2023 16th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, San Jose, CA, USA, May 1-4, 2023.
  
• CCS 2023 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 26-30, 2023.
  Submission dates: 19 January 2023 and 4 May 2023.
• C&ESAR 2023 Cybersecurity of Smart Peripheral Devices (Mobiles / IoT / Edge), Rennes, France, November 21-22, 2023.
  Submission dates: 26 April 2023, 10 May 2023, and 30 August 2023.
• CUING 2023 7th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding, Held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), Benevento, Italy, August 29 - September 1, 2023.
  Submission date: 22 May 2023.
• ENS 2023 5th International Workshop on Emerging Network Security, Held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), Benevento, Italy, August 29 - September 1, 2023.
  Submission date: 22 May 2023.
• SP 2023 SP 2023 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-26, 2023.
• ESORICS 2023 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Hague, Netherlands, September 25-29, 2023.
  Submission dates: 22 January 2023 and 28 May 2023.
• SecDev 2023 IEEE Secure Development Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 18 - 20, 2023.
  Submission date: 2 June 2023.
• USENIX Security 2024 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024.
  Submission dates: 6 June 2023, 17 October 2023, and 8 February 2024.
• SecMT 2023 International Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies, Held in conjunction with ACNS2023, Kyoto, Japan, June 19-22, 2023.
• SecSoft 2023 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy Management in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures, Co-located with IEEE NetSoft 2023, Madrid, Spain, June 23, 2023.
• MetaCom 2023 International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, June 26-28, 2023.
• CSCML 2023 7th International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning, Virtually, Beer-Sheva, Israel, June 29-30, 2023.
• Euro S&P 2023 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Delft, Netherlands, July 3-7, 2023.
• WTMC 2023 8th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, Co-located with 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2023), Delft, The Netherlands, July 7, 2023.
• DFRWS 2023 23rd Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 9-12, 2023.
• SECRYPT 2023 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Rome, Italy, July 10-12, 2023.
• ASIACCS 2023 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-14, 2023.
• CSF 2023 36th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, July 10-14, 2023.
• PETS 2023 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Hybrid, July 10-15, 2023.
• USENIX Security 2023 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023.
• NSS 2023 17th International Conference on Network and System Security, Canterbury, UK, August 14-16, 2023.
• CUING 2023 7th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding, Held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), Benevento, Italy, August 29 - September 1, 2023.
• ENS 2023 5th International Workshop on Emerging Network Security, Held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), Benevento, Italy, August 29 - September 1, 2023.
• C&ESAR 2023 Cybersecurity of Smart Peripheral Devices (Mobiles / IoT / Edge), Rennes, France, November 21-22, 2023.
  Submission dates: 26 April 2023, 10 May 2023, and 30 August 2023.
• ESORICS 2023 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Hague, Netherlands, September 25-29, 2023.
• RAID 2023 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, Hong Kong, October 16-18, 2023.
• USENIX Security 2024 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024.
  Submission dates: 6 June 2023, 17 October 2023, and 8 February 2024.
• SecDev 2023 IEEE Secure Development Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 18 - 20, 2023.
• C&ESAR 2023 Cybersecurity of Smart Peripheral Devices (Mobiles / IoT / Edge), Rennes, France, November 21-22, 2023.
• CCS 2023 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 26-30, 2023.
• USENIX Security 2024 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024.
  Submission dates: 6 June 2023, 17 October 2023, and 8 February 2024.
• USENIX Security 2024 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024.

 

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