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Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Review of RossFest (Cambridge, UK, 3/25/2025) by Sven Dietrich

  • Sven Dietrich's review of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing - The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

  • NewsBits:  News from the media, announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

    • No Security, No Press
    • US Pivots on Cybersecurity - Good-bye to Information Integrity, Talented Employees, Etc.
    • Ransomware Profits Hit a Low
    • The Computer Goes Random Like a Cookie
    • Three Bites of the Apple
      
    • California Gets Seriously Private
    • Immigrants' Locations Revealed to ICE via License Plate Scanners
    • The Engineer Who Outed NSA
    • The Ether That Vanished

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 

• Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
  Requests for inclusion in the list should be sent per instructions.
    new calls or announcements added since Cipher E183 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

Conference and Workshop Announcements

• ICICS 2025 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Nanjing, China, October 29-31, 2025.
  Submission date: 9 March 2025 and 23 May 2025.
• CSR 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, Chania, Crete, Greece, August 4-6, 2025.
  Submission date: 10 March 2025.
• ACM WiSec 2025 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Arlington, Virginia, USA, June 30 - July 3, 2025.
  Submission dates: 26 November 2024 and 12 March 2025.
• CVC 2025 8th Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology, Zug, Switzerland, June 5-6, 2025.
  Submission date: 13 March 2025.
• SACMAT 2025 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 8-10, 2025.
  Submission date: 24 March 2025.
• Elsevier Online Social Networks and Media Journal (OSNEM), Special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media. Submission date: 31 March 2025.
• ACM Transactions on the Web, Special Issue on Advanced Technologies in the Decentralized Web. Submission date: 31 March 2025.
• TX4Nets 2025 2nd International Workshop on Trustworthy and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Networks, Co-located with IFIP Networking 2025, Limassol, Cyprus, May 25-29, 2025. Submission date: 31 March 2025.
• Journal of Systems Architecture, Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities. Submission date: 1 April 2025.
• PST 2025 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust, Fredericton, Canada, August 26-28, 2025. Submission date: 4 April 2025.
• 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.
• 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.
• ACM CCS 2025 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Taipei, Taiwan, October 13-17, 2025.
  Submission date: 14 April 2025.
• MarCaS 2025 3rd LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security, Held in conjunction with the 50th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2025), Sydney, Australia, October 14-16, 2025. Submission date: 20 April 2025.
• ESORICS 2025 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Toulouse, France, September 22-26, 2025.
  Submission dates: 10 January 2025 and 22 April 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.
• IFIP TC-11 SEC 2025 40th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference, Maribor, Slovenia, May 21-23, 2025.
• WNDSS 2025 International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security, Co-located with the 40th International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025), Maribor, Slovenia, May 23, 2025.
• ICICS 2025 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Nanjing, China, October 29-31, 2025.
  Submission dates: 9 March 2025 and 23 May 2025.
• TX4Nets 2025 2nd International Workshop on Trustworthy and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Networks, Co-located with IFIP Networking 2025, Limassol, Cyprus, May 25-29, 2025.
• SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, MAY 18-21, 2026. Submission dates: 5 June 2025 and 13 November 2025.
• CVC 2025 8th Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology, Zug, Switzerland, June 5-6, 2025.
• IWSPA 2025 11th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, Co-located with ACM CODASPY 2025, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 6, 2025.
• CSF 2025 38th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, June 16-20, 2025.
• WEIS 2025 24th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Tokyo, Japan, Jun 23-25, 2025.
• WTMC 2025 10th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, Co-located with the 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2025), Venice, Italy, June 30, 2025.
• ACM WiSec 2025 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Arlington, Virginia, USA, June 30 - July 3, 2025.
• IEEE EuroS&P 2025 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Venice, Italy, June 30 - July 4, 2025.
• SACMAT 2025 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 8-10, 2025.
• PETS 2025 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Washington, DC and Online, July 14-19, 2025.
• APWG eCrime 2025 20th APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, San Diego, CA, USA, November 4-7, 2025. Submission date: 15 July 2025.
• DFRWS-USA 2025 25th Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 22-25, 2025.
• CSR 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, Chania, Crete, Greece, August 4-6, 2025.
• ARES 2025 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Ghent, Belgium, August 10-13, 2025.
• USENIX Security 2025 34th USENIX Security Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, August 13-15, 2025.
• PST 2025 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust, Fredericton, Canada, August 26-28, 2025.
• ESORICS 2025 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Toulouse, France, September 22-26, 2025.
• ACM CCS 2025 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Taipei, Taiwan, October 13-17, 2025.
• MarCaS 2025 3rd LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security, Held in conjunction with the 50th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2025), Sydney, Australia, October 14-16, 2025.
• ICICS 2025 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Nanjing, China, October 29-31, 2025.
• SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, MAY 18-21, 2026. Submission date: 5 June 2025 and 13 November 2025.
• APWG eCrime 2025 20th APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, San Diego, CA, USA, November 4-7, 2025.
• SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, MAY 18-21, 2026.

• Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
  

 

• The Technical Committee on Security and Privacy

 

• Staying in touch....

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  • Who's where: recent address changes

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