Andrea Continella

Associate Prof. in CS @UTwente | Security researcher | Hacker @shellphish | Proud Sicilian 🌋🍻

[Simone Aonzo @packm4d]

(1/n) New research on Windows malware, to appear at ACM ASIA CCS 2026 [1]:
"SoK: Systematization, Detection, and Hunting of Windows Malware Persistence Techniques" [2]

This work is a collaboration between EURECOM and the University of Twente.

[Andrea Continella @_conand]

@packm4d Amazing! Congrats folks!

[EuroSec Workshop @EuroSecWorkshop]

📢 CFP Update: #EuroSec2026 Deadline Extended!

The submission deadline has been postponed—more time to submit your systems security work.

🗓 New deadline: Feb 10, 2026(AoE)
🔗https://t.co/adzvcqEBKc

#CFP #InfoSec #SystemsSecurity

[Federico Maggi @phretor]

Part 2 dropped. 🧵[1/2]
tl;dr: your slides are not your talk.

skip the template
skip the agenda (no spoilers)
skip the "about me" ego slide
💣 start from the LAST slide: your 280-char core message 😱

then work backward.

Full framework + slides ...

[EuroSec Workshop @EuroSecWorkshop]

🚨 CFP OPEN: #EuroSec2026 🚨

The 19th European Workshop on Systems Security, co-located with #EuroSys2026 in Edinburgh 🇬🇧

📅 Deadline: Feb 3, 2026 (AoE)
📍 Submit: https://t.co/adzvcqF9zK

Bring your best systems security ideas! 🔐💡

[Signal @signalapp]

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.

https://t.co/015qmQnIS2

[[email protected] @Zardus]

Hello hackers! Excited for @DEFCON tomorrow? Make sure to stop by @DEFCONAcademy, a brand new community effort to provide a path for everyone to LEARN TO HACK. Read on for the details! 🧵

[Andrea Continella @_conand]

📢 We are looking for an Assistant Professor on Security in Twente: https://t.co/ijZZMJxbIr

Feel free to reach out for any questions!

[UTwente Vacancies @UTwenteJobs]

Assistant Professor position in Cybersecurity https://t.co/o5sEBOu1XY

[Andrea Di Dio @hammertux]

[1/3] Turns out those old MDS gadgets have new life... In our latest paper at @IEEESSP , we show how attackers can construct PRELOAD+TIME, a new cache side-channel which takes advantage of these 'half-Spectre' gadgets.

[EuroSec Workshop @EuroSecWorkshop]

Only 7 days left to submit your paper to #EuroSec2025!🚀
Deadline: Jan 31, 2025 (AoE)

Join us in Rotterdam on March 31!
Submit now: https://t.co/U1bZG8oYvx
Details: https://t.co/fYYCvvwDVe

#SystemsSecurity #EuroSys2025 #EuroSecWorkshop

[EuroSec Workshop @EuroSecWorkshop]

Excited to announce the CfP for #EuroSec2025, co-located with @EuroSysConf!

Submit your finest ideas here: https://t.co/U1bZG8oYvx
Deadline: January 31, 2025.

For details and submission guidelines, visit: https://t.co/fYYCvvwDVe

#EuroSecWorkshop #SystemsSecurity #EuroSys2025

[Andrea Continella @_conand]

📢 Postdoc Position on Formal Methods for Software Security

Deadline: 24 Jan 2025

[UTwente Vacancies @UTwenteJobs]

Postdoc Position in Formal Methods for Software Security https://t.co/5jatJ0btLG

[Shellphish @shellphish]

WE QUALIFIED FOR AIxCC FINALS!!!!

[Andrea Continella @_conand]

#DIMVA24 @DIMVAConf was a blast! See you all next year 👋

The slides of my keynote are available at https://t.co/SSglXzE4PO

[Mathias Payer @gannimo]

#DIMVA24 @DIMVAConf is off to an amazing start. 84 attendees flocked to Lausanne to mingle and talk about security. After an intro by Manuel Egele, @_conand is kicking us off by talking about challenges of analyzing firmware

[Mathias Payer @gannimo]

#DIMVA24 @DIMVAConf is off to an amazing start. 84 attendees flocked to Lausanne to mingle and talk about security. After an intro by Manuel Egele, @_conand is kicking us off by talking about challenges of analyzing firmware

[Andrea Continella @_conand]

📢 We are looking for PhDs in software security @UTwente.

If you enjoy low-level hacking, automated exploit generation, vulnerability analysis, etc. check this out!

👇👇👇

[UTwente Vacancies @UTwenteJobs]

PhD Position on Software Security https://t.co/TCGWY27CDj

[Lorenzo Cavallaro @lcavallaro]

📢PostDoc on Trustworthy AI for Systems Security on Code Representation Learning @uclisec @uclcs @ucl collab w. Suman Jana @Columbia📢

Excited on (AI + program analysis) for security? https://t.co/CfWJQzTNSn

Appetite? See S2Lab papers + https://t.co/3HEen0wad9 (ICML 2024) RT🙏

[Andrea Continella @_conand]

Looking forward to talking about firmware security at #DIMVA24! See you in Lausanne

[Mathias Payer @gannimo]

Are you as excited about #DIMVA24 as we are? Join us Jul17-19 in Lausanne @EPFL_en @ICepfl for great papers, a poster session (deadline Jun14) and two amazing keynotes by @_conand and @veelasha_m. The registration is open now! https://t.co/K8uTWGvaqz Please RT

[Mathias Payer @gannimo]

Are you as excited about #DIMVA24 as we are? Join us Jul17-19 in Lausanne @EPFL_en @ICepfl for great papers, a poster session (deadline Jun14) and two amazing keynotes by @_conand and @veelasha_m. The registration is open now! https://t.co/K8uTWGvaqz Please RT

[Luca Mariot @Rymoah]

📢🚨I'm happy to announce that I'm organizing IEEE CSF 2024 in Enschede, the Netherlands, on July 8-12!

Registration is now open, see info in the tweet below.

Early registration deadline: *** June 14, 2024 ***

See accepted papers at: https://t.co/iBlYF6m5Dx