Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 178,  March 18, 2024 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Sven Dietrich, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Yong Guan, Calendar Editor

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Commentary and Opinion

    • Sven Dietrich's review of Locksport: A Hacker's Guide to Lockpicking, Impressioning, and Safe Cracking by Jos Weyers, Matt Burrough, Walter Belgers, BandEAtoZ, and Nigel K. Tolley

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

      • FBI Reaches Deep to Remove Malware from Critical Infrastructure
      • Chinese Sponsored Hacking, the Genie Unleashed
      • Spyware Need Not Apply
      • Finger a Health System Hacker and Win Money
      • Home Routers Cleaned by FBI
      • LockBit Badly Mauled
      • Slow Restoration of Health Insurance System
      • Microsoft Struggles to Remove Intruders
      • It's a Bird, It's a Crane, It's a Giant Vulnerability

    • 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
    

   

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
    Requests for inclusion in the list should be sent per instructions.
      new calls or announcements added since Cipher E177 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • IEEE Communications Magazine - Cybersecurity (In Incubation) IEEE Communications Magazine is starting a new Cybersecurity Series.
    Submission date: Anytime during the year
  • FHE 2024 3rd Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Held in conjunction with the Real World Crypto 2024, Toronto, Canada, March 24, 2024.
  • SciSec 2024 6th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 14-16, 2024.
    Submission date: 7 April 2024.
  • RAID 2024 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, Padua, Italy, September 30 - October 2, 2024.
    Submission date: 9 April 2024.
  • SPW 2024 29th International Workshop on Security Protocols, Brno, Czechia, April 10-12, 2024.
  • CANS 2024 International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, Cambridge, UK, September 24-27, 2024.
    Submission date: 14 April 2024.
  • ICICS 2024 26th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Mytilene, Greece, August 26-28, 2024.
    Submission date: 2 February 2024 and 19 April 2024.
  • ESORICS 2024 9th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 16-20, 2024.
    Submission date: 8 January 2024 and 19 April 2024.
  • MarCaS 2024 2nd IEEE LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security, Held in conjunction with the 49th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2024), Caen, Normandy, France, October 8-10, 2024.
    Submission date: 19 April 2024.
  • SCN 2024 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, Amalfi, Italy. September 11-13, 2024.
    Submission date: 24 April 2024.
  • ACM CCS 2024 31th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 14-18, 2024.
    Submission date: 28 January 2024 and 29 April 2024.
  • BASS 2024 4th International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security, Held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 30 - August 2, 2024.
    Submission date: 30 April 2024.
  • CSR 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, London, UK, Hybrid Conference, September 2-4, 2024.
    Submission date: 3 May 2024.
  • EDid 2024 1st International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities, Held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 30 - August 2, 2024.
    Submission date: 8 May 2024.
  • CSET 2024 17th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 13, 2024.
    Submission date: 17 May 2024.
  • SP 2024 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 20-23, 2024.
  • SafeThings 2024 8th IEEE/ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things, Held in conjunction with IEEE SP 2024 Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, May 23, 2024.
  • SAGAI 2024 Workshop on Security Architectures for GenAI Systems, Held in conjunction with IEEE SP 2024 Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, May 23, 2024.
  • Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) Journal, Special Issues on Human-centric Security and Privacy Protection for Smart City.
    Submission date: 30 May 2024.
  • CNS 2024 12th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, Taipei, Taiwan, September 30 - October 3, 2024.
    Submission date: 10 June 2024.
  • SYSTOR 2024 17th ACM International System and Storage Conference, Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel, September 23-25, 2024.
    Submission date: 19 June 2024.
  • CODASPY 2024 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Porto, Portugal, June 19-21, 2024.
  • ASIACCS 2024 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Singapore, July 1-5, 2024.
  • CSF 2024 37th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Enschede, Netherlands, July 8-12, 2024.
  • DFRWS 2024 24th Annual Digital Forensic Research Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, July 9-12, 2024.
  • PETS 2024 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Bristol, UK and Online, July 15-20, 2024.
  • BASS 2024 4th International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security, Held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 30 - August 2, 2024.
  • EDid 2024 1st International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities, Held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 30 - August 2, 2024.
  • SOUPS 2024 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 11-13, 2024.
  • CSET 2024 17th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 13, 2024.
  • USENIX Security 2024 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024.
  • SciSec 2024 6th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 14-16, 2024.
  • ICICS 2024 26th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Mytilene, Greece, August 26-28, 2024.
  • CSR 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, London, UK, Hybrid Conference, September 2-4, 2024.
  • SCN 2024 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, Amalfi, Italy. September 11-13, 2024.
  • ESORICS 2024 9th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 16-20, 2024.
  • SYSTOR 2024 17th ACM International System and Storage Conference, Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel, September 23-25, 2024.
  • CANS 2024 International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, Cambridge, UK, September 24-27, 2024.
  • RAID 2024 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, Padua, Italy, September 30 - October 2, 2024.
  • CNS 2024 12th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, Taipei, Taiwan, September 30 - October 3, 2024.
  • MarCaS 2024 2nd IEEE LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security, Held in conjunction with the 49th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2024), Caen, Normandy, France, October 8-10, 2024.
  • ACM CCS 2024 31th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 14-18, 2024.

 

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