Vanmiddag om 17 uur maakt de Kiesraad bekend welke politieke groeperingen en kandidaten deelnemen aan de Europees Parlementsverkiezing op 6 juni. Ook nummert de Kiesraad de kandidatenlijsten. De openbare zitting is te volgen via een livestream: tweedekamer.nl/vergaderingen/…

Since James Mickens is not active on here, I feel it's my duty to share this gem with the world: tentimesyourmaster.com Yes, James formed a 5-person band consisting of himself only and wrote a heavy metal album

Werken bij de Rijksoverheid is tof. Ik kan het weten, ik doe het al meer dan 10 jaar. Samen met gedreven collega's je inzetten, wat ten goede komt van iedereen. youtu.be/uQlvxIM6Vzs?fe…

Extensive report on our open letter warning for the new #chatcontrol draft in Techcrunch. EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn tcrn.ch/44mOHYx via @techcrunch

The program for the 9th IEEE EuroS&P is out: ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2024/… We're happy to welcome our keynote speakers: Alina Oprea Alina Oprea and Chris Kruegel.

Do you love low-level systems hacking? And would you like to work at a top systems security research group in Amsterdam? At VUSec, we have a number of PhD and PostDoc positions available: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-…

Today at #SP24, Floris Gorter presents Sticky Tags. We uncover performance/security issues in prior ARM MTE schemes based on random tagging (+ a new speculative oracle) and show how to address them with a new deterministic MTE scheme for spatial memory safety: download.vusec.net/papers/stickyt…

The Belgian presidency has drafted yet another tweaked #chatcontrol proposal. In summary, the proposal remains completely unacceptable. TLDR: All the problems pointed our in our open letters are still there nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/eq… & docs.google.com/document/d/13A… 🧵1/6

For the first time, 2 Association for Computing Machinery flagship conferences in computer systems are colocated in Europe: Rotterdam🎒🚲🌷 ACM ASPLOS'25: asplos-conference.org/asplos-2025-ca… ACM EuroSys'25: 2025.eurosys.org TU Delft UGent Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) ACM SIGOPS SIGARCH @sigplan EuroSys 2025

Onze Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Fleur van Leusden Queen Fennec mocht in de podcast De Technoloog van BNR Nieuwsradio vertellen over hoe we ervoor zorgen dat de verkiezingen veilig, transparant en controleerbaar zijn.

Zodra de stembussen gesloten zijn, starten de stembureauleden met het tellen van de stemmen. Dit gebeurt in het openbaar en iedereen mag daarbij aanwezig zijn. Je mag het telproces niet verstoren, dus er gelden enkele regels 👇

Europees Parlementsverkiezing voorspoedig verlopen, uitslag betrouwbaar kiesraad.nl/actueel/nieuws…

So... Andy won the ACM Software System Award for MINIX! I feel very proud and privileged to have worked with him (on MINIX 3 and other things)! He is one of the true pioneers of operating systems and one of the reasons i came to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief). acm.org/media-center/2…

A big thank you to the local organizers in Vienna for hosting an outstanding event! Thanks to the outgoing chair Herbert Bos and good luck for 2025 to the PC co-chairs Ben Stock and Anja Lehmann - follow this space for the CfP and changes for the 2025 Venice edition of EuroS&P.

Our paper "SIMurai: Slicing Through the Complexity of SIM Card Security Research" just went public! In this paper, we explore the question: What kind of attacks could a hostile SIM launch against your phone? Surprisingly, a lot.

Happy to report that our InSpectreGadget paper won a Distinguished Paper award at USENIX Security: download.vusec.net/papers/inspect… VUSec Sander Wiebing alvise Cristiano Giuffrida Here is Sander Wiebing presenting the paper:

As it turns out, the secure monitor, Android's most trusted component is full of bugs. Christian Lindenmeier and Marcel discovered lots of serious issues USENIX Security though fuzzing. Paper: nebelwelt.net/files/24SEC2.p…

Do you want 0days in Android Trusted Applications using the Global Platform API? Use Marcel's binary static analysis USENIX Security to find type confusions resulting in arbitrary writes. Paper: nebelwelt.net/files/24SEC4.p…

In the last VUSec presentation at USENIX Security, Hany Ragab discusses GhostRace and explains how attackers can exploit speculative race conditions in the Linux kernel. download.vusec.net/papers/ghostra… Anil Kurmus Cristiano Giuffrida Andrea Mambretti

Leaving Twitter/X. I can't stand the guy.