Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 181,  September 23, 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 the book, Security of FPGA-Accelerated Cloud Computing Environments by Jakub Szefer and Russell Tessier

    • Richard Austin's review of Microcontroller Exploits by Travis Goodspeed

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

      • LegalWare Follows Ransomware
      • Water Protection Efforts Fight an Uphill Battle
      • The Last Page

    • 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 E180 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • SYSTOR 2024 17th ACM International System and Storage Conference, Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel, September 23-25, 2024.
  • eCrime 2024 19th annual APWG eCrime symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, September 24-26, 2024.
  • CANS 2024 International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, Cambridge, UK, September 24-27, 2024.
  • DFRWS EU 2025 Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe, Hybrid, Brno, Czech Republic, April 1-4, 2025.
    Submission date: 27 September 2024.
  • SaTML 2025 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 9-11, 2025.
    Submission date: 27 September 2024.
  • EuroUSEC 2024 European Symposium on Usable Security conference, Karlstad, Sweden, September 30 - October 1, 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.
  • 6GQ 2024 Workshop on Postquantum Cryptography and Quantum Communication for 6G Networks, Held in conjunction with the 49th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2024), Caen, Normandy, France, October 8-10, 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.
  • BRAINS 2024 6th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, Berlin, Germany, October 8-11, 2024.
  • UbiSec 2024 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security, Changsha, China, December 29-31, 2024.
    Submission dates: 31 August 2024 and 10 October 2024.
  • HealthSec 2024 Workshop on Cybersecurity in Healthcare, Held in conjunction with the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024), Salt Lake City, Utah USA, October 14, 2024.
  • ASHES 2024 8th Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security, Held in conjunction with the 31st ACM CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024.
  • ACM CCS 2024 31th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 14-18, 2024.
  • TPS 2024 6th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications, Washington D.C., USA, October 28-30, 2024.
  • ICTAI 2024 36th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Herndon, VA, USA, October 30 - November 1, 2024.
  • DFDS 2025 1st Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium, Held in conjunction with Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe (DFRWS EU 2025), Brno, Czech Republic, April 1, 2025.
    Submission date: 4 November 2024.
  • DASC 2024 22nd IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines, November 5-8, 2024.
  • SP 2025 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 12-15, 2025.
    Submission dates: 6 June 2024 and 14 November 2024.
  • NSS-SocialSec 2024 Joint 18th International Conference on Network and System Security and 10th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 20-22, 2024.
  • CRiSIS 2024 19th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, Aix-en-Provence, France, November 26-28, 2024.
  • PETS 2025 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Washington, DC and Online, July, 2025 (dates to be confirmed).
    Submission dates: 31 May 2024, 31 August 2024, 30 November 2024, and 28 February 2025.
  • UIC 202421st IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Denarau Island, Fiji, December 2-7, 2024.
  • HOST 2025 18th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, San Jose, CA, USA, May 5-8, 2025.
    Submission dates: 9 September 2024 and 9 December 2024.
  • FPS 2024 17th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security, Montreal, Canada, December 9-11 2024.
  • ICSS 2024 10th Industrial Control System Security Workshop, Held in conjunction with the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Waikiki, Hawaii, Dec 10, 2024.
  • ICISS 2024 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security, Jaipur, India, December 16-20, 2024.
  • CSCML 2024 8th International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning, Beer-Sheva, Israel - Virtual, December 19-20, 2024.
  • UbiSec 2024 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security, Changsha, China, December 29-31, 2024.
  • IFIP 119 DF 2025 21st Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, India, January 6-7, 2025.
  • USENIX Security 2025 34th USENIX Security Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, August 13-15, 2025.
    Submission dates: 4 September 2024 and 22 January 2025.
  • NDSS 2025 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium and Workshops, San Diego, CA, USA, February 23-28, 2025.
  • PETS 2025 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Washington, DC and Online, July, 2025 (dates to be confirmed).
    Submission dates: 31 May 2024, 31 August 2024, 30 November 2024, and 28 February 2025.
  • DFDS 20251st Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium, Held in conjunction with Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe (DFRWS EU 2025), Brno, Czech Republic, April 1, 2025.
  • DFRWS EU 2025 Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe, Hybrid, Brno, Czech Republic, April 1-4, 2025.
  • SaTML 2025 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 9-11, 2025.
  • HOST 2025 18th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, San Jose, CA, USA, May 5-8, 2025.
  • SP 2025 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 12-15, 2025.
  • USENIX Security 2025 34th USENIX Security Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, August 13-15, 2025.

 

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