Another year, another CCC. It's been a long road from Berlin to Leipzig and Hamburg. Each year, I repeat the ritual of going to the "Kongress", the most amazing hacker get together in the world. The Kongress is special, hackers of all denominations meet, engage, hack, and enjoy a few …
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37c3: Chaos returning to Hamburg
After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Chaos Communication Congress is finally back at an onsite venue. For those that don't know, the congress is the biggest hacker Conference in Europe. It is known not just for deep technical talks and amazing hacks but also for political talks …
read moreRaising the BAR at NDSS 2018
Just like every year, this year's NDSS was mid February in sunny (but not too warm) San Diego. To help cure the minimal 3 hour jetlag, I enjoyed a couple of morning runs with some of my colleagues -- if you want to get a workout done at a security conference …
read moreRoundtable on rigor in experimentation
This year at CSET yours truly had the pleasure to organize a round table on rigor in experimentation with Geoff Voelker, Micah Sherr, and Adam Doupé as panelists. After a quick introduction and mission statements we discussed rigor in experimentation along several dimensions. The most interesting aspects were open source …
read moreMitigations: Completeness/Effectiveness vs Performance
As part of ESSoS ‘17 we have organized a joint ESSoS/DIMVA panel on exploit mitigations, discussing the past, present, and future of mitigations. If we look at the statistics of reported memory corruptions we see an upward trend in number of reported vulnerabilities. Given the success of contests such …
read moreSyScan+360 in Seattle
Just a couple of days after Oakland '17 I attended my next information security conference. This year, SyScan+360 was in Seattle and I used the time between Oakland and SyScan for a nice road trip from San Jose to Seattle. SyScan is not an academic but an industry conference …
read moreOakland'17, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Every year, the Oakland conference is one of the highlights of security research. As likely the most competitive of the big four conferences, Oakland is always a great place to sync up with friends and learn about new trends in security (then again, being in the PC committees for most …
read moreAsiaCCS'17 in Abu Dhabi
This was my second AsiaCCS. After an interesting experience in China last year, this year's AsiaCCS was in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Abu Dhabi. My program for this conference was quite packed. Two of my students had presentations, Daniele Midi's nesCheck work and Scott Carr's selective memory safety …
read moreAsiaCCS and China
The last three weeks I've been traveling through China, Hong Kong, and Macau on an interesting security tour thanks to this year's AsiaCCS being held in Xi'an, China. AsiaCCS was right after Oakland, so I flew directly from San Francisco to Xi'an China and then continued to visit friends at …
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