For anyone wanting to read an informative piece on the global state of things (especially in the USA) the Atlantic has one by Jonathan Haidt that does a great job of tying together many of the threads of modern existence that diagram why we are where we are. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Today at Usenix Security 2023 #usesec23 Track 1 (10:45AM), I will present our work on attack surface reduction for web applications aka debloating. In the first paper titled Minimalist, Rasoul and I build a static analysis tool to generate the call graphs of PHP applications.

Following up my first talk at Usenix Security 2023 #usesec23 Track 1 (10:45AM), I present AnimateDead🪦, which is a distributed concolic execution engine for PHP applications. AnimateDead leverages a PHP emulator to execute applications in a symbolic environment.

Hard to overstate how groundbreaking Yoshida's films still are, and 35mm is a rare treat

Happy to announce that Brian Kondracki and Johnny So's 2022 USENIX Security paper on Certificate Transparency bots was selected as the winner of the 11th NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity paper competition!

Next is "Manufactured Narratives: On the Potential of Manipulating Social Media to Politicize World Events" by Chris #secweb CC jason polakis

And the #secweb best paper award goes to "Manufactured Narratives: On the Potential of Manipulating Social Media to Politicize World Events" by Chris Tsoukaladelis (Chris) and Nick Nikiforakis (Nick Nikiforakis) from Stony Brook University ! Congrats to the authors! 🎉 CC jason polakis

Rare chance to catch new films by Gakuryu Ishii, Tsukamoto and my personal favorite, Shunji Iwai. Great selection of indie films too!

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding. Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities signal.org/blog/pdfs/uplo…

MADWeb 2025 will be co-chaired by the awesome team of Marco Squarcina, Limin Jia, and Yinzhi Cao. Send them your papers! #websecurity #webprivacy

Now that I was able to get my hands on a picture, I am happy to announce that Chris won second place in the "social impact" category of the 2024 NYU CSAW Cybersecurity Games and Conference competition, out of 194 submissions!

Our first #ACSAC2024 #PaperPreview today is by Kondracki et al. who show that many #servers start out insecure and only become #secure in the hours and days after they become publicly accessible: openconf.org/acsac2024/modu… #websecurity #TLS Nick Nikiforakis Brian Kondracki Stony Brook University Dept. of Computer Science

Muhammad Muzammil 's eCrime 2024 paper studying typosquatting in Web3, was discussed in an article by the Fast Company. Check it out!

Stony Brook University researchers uncovered a new #Blockchain vulnerability, showing how cybercriminals exploit human error in naming systems. Led by Prof. Nick Nikiforakis, they won bronze at eCrime 2024 in Boston! #CyberSecurity

It's only been 20 years!

Jokes aside, very happy to finally be able to blast the OST of my favorite film :)

Of course Kiyoshi Kurosawa will be visiting NY the one year I can't attend

Welcome back Kiyoshi Kurosawa