If you needed yet another reason not to trust VPN providers or proxy services... Here Facebook partnered with a bunch of companies to have root certificates installed on people's phones so they could intercept other app's traffic. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Are medical studies being written with ChatGPT? Well, we all know ChatGPT overuses the word "delve". Look below at how often the word 'delve' is used in papers on PubMed (2023 was the first full year of ChatGPT).

📢Travel fellowships available to attend the Summer Research Institute on Security and Privacy at EPFL! Check the program here: suri.epfl.ch and apply here: forms.gle/3CL6j6v648R5fr… come listen to Patrick Traynor Oana Goga Reza Shokri Clémentine Maurice lucy qin Anwar Hithnawi

Five days to go until our next co-design workshop 👇

SAVE THE DATE! Warsaw IACR Crypto Summer School on Post-Quantum Cryptography will be held July 15–19. Organized by Alon Rosen, Giulio Malavolta, myself, IDEAS NCBR, and Uniwersytet Warszawski. Registration opens in May (you can leave your email to be notified). ideas-ncbr.pl/en/events/pqc2…

Researchers from UofG Computing Science are playing key roles in two projects supported by new funding from Responsible Ai UK. @DrSimoneStumpf is leading the PHAWM project, while Prof Dame Muffy Calder and Michele Sevegnani are supporting PROBabLE Futures. More here: bit.ly/3y2s1k7

Join us UoY Computer Science and Leonardo UK in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership on model-based software engineering for complex systems of systems! Deadline for applications: June 4. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/ktp-as… cs.york.ac.uk/research/group… Simos Gerasimou Antonio García

Registration for Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024 (PETS2024) is now open! Further details can be found here: petsymposium.org/2024/registrat… #REPHRAIN

The CFP deadline for the 1st GOSS 2024 workshop, is fast approaching! Submit 1-page of your past, present, future work on [Gender&Sexuality + Online Safety] topics, by 23rd May, 23:59 AoE @ gossworkshop.github.io/cfp.html Together with Miranda Wei , we are excited to see you at GOSS!

It’s the pre-election period so civil servants (including research funders) are restricted in what they say publicly. This, however, doesn’t apply to academics (despite revoked guidance from RCUK still circulating). @[email protected] summarises the situation. wonkhe.com/blogs/do-you-h…

I am looking for a PhD student in Cryptography to join our group at IMDEA Software ! Topics of interest include zero-knowledge proofs, succinct proof systems and verifiable computation, computation on encrypted data. For more information -> software.imdea.org/careers/2024-0…

"BBC Question Time: analysis of guests over nine years suggests an overuse of right-wing voices" finds Matt Walsh theconversation.com/bbc-question-t… via The Conversation

We have a PhD position in ethnography focusing on the security needs of protesters, as part of our Social Foundations of Cryptography project (…foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io). Deadline: 31 August 2024. Open to UK applicants. More information here: findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Curious difference: IEEE S&P says "authors do not have to disclose vulnerabilities ahead of submission". But USENIX Security says "Submissions that fail to disclose prior to submission [..] may be rejected" sp2025.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html usenix.org/conference/use…

Are you interested in Generative AI for Cultural Heritage (CH)? Concerned about potential harms of AI in cultural heritage? Join us 10 December 12:30 - 15:30 in an ONLINE workshop on auditing Gen-AI for CH. eventbrite.com/e/generative-a… Ayah Soufan 🇵🇸

We got a PhD Position in Lattice-Based Cryptography at King's College London Cybersecurity @ KCL Informatics KCL Informatics martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/phd… cryptographers.kcl.ac.uk

Applications for the Internet Society #NDSSsymposium2025 Fellowship have been extended until Friday, 20 December. Don't miss this opportunity to attend the 2nd-ranked global #cybersecurity conference. ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/atten……

Working on some exciting research around the human factors in security and privacy? We'd love to hear more about your work at #EuroUSEC2025! Submission is available via our website: eurousec2025.cis.strath.ac.uk Paper registration deadline: 5/5/2025 Submission deadline: 9/5/2025

Like many colleagues, I'm moving to bsky.app/profile/siasha… Please follow me there if you are there.

UK-SPS & fmsec are back in a new form, with a focus on resilience. Check out cyse3.org Co-organised with Erisa Karafili, Siamak F. Shahandashti, Luca arnaboldi, Roberto Metere. First talk - Tom Chothia, 11th of June, 2pm UK time. See cyse3.org !