Nektarios Tsoutsos

Autonomous drone enthusiast, cybersecurity researcher, PhD in computer science. Passionate about breaking things and finding flaws. Enjoys cryptography papers.

[Nektarios Tsoutsos @nektrino]

Our latest article on efficient error detection for encrypted computation featured on the Jan 2018 issue of #IEEE #TC https://t.co/GJvVucYX0Q @realMoMAlab @ComputerSociety
short video: https://t.co/V3cp2sJisP

[IEEE ICCD 2019 @IEEE_ICCD_2019]

Welcome to the official twitter account for @IEEEorg ICCD 2019 conference that will be held on the @NYUAbuDhabi campus in the city of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (November 17 - 20, 2019). Abstract deadline: **June 21, 2019**. CFP: https://t.co/VCHimWN02g

[Dan Guido @dguido]

Given one arbitrary binary (without source code), we can recreate any number of new versions of it with equivalent functionality but divergent exploitation properties. It works, and it's amazing. https://t.co/sBaUh4nNM6

[Marc Stevens @realhashbreaker]

We solved SVP dimension 151 in about 460 coredays. Compared to the old record for dim 150 using RSR that took about 180,000 coredays this is in the order of 400 times faster.

[matt blaze @mattblaze]

You cannot make insecure software systems more secure by being encouraging and not saying mean things about them. It’s not that kind of insecurity.

[Mihalis Maniatakos @realMoMAlab]

Come visit our @nyutandon @CCSAbuDhabi @NYUCyber booth at @55thDAC to learn more about our #privacy-preserving processor! @nektrino

[Schneier Blog @schneierblog]

Damaging Hard Drives with an Ultrasonic Attack https://t.co/sM1m25stZA

[Martin R. Albrecht @martinralbrecht]

"Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners" https://t.co/TpjGCstEx6 This is great, they implement a bunch of (toy versions of) quantum algorithms on IBM's public quantum computer.

[matt blaze @mattblaze]

Remember, if your Twitter password has been compromised (and it may well have been; see below), you need to change it not just here, but anywhere you use the same or a similar password. (Using a password manager can avoid the risks of re-using passwords on multiple sites.) https://t.co/GcYtly2bGy

[Dmitry Bestuzhev @dimitribest]

Malware from #Brazil says that I spend too much time reading their code
#malware

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

I wrote up some of my thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” phone decryption proposal. https://t.co/QHKeMk3RtI

[Mathy Vanhoef @vanhoefm]

All VW-3 car keys used the same cryptographic key 😑

[hacker.house @hackerfantastic]

RSA leaked all the attendees personal details via unsecured public facing API's using hard coded credentials in a mobile application. Contact @svblxyz for further details. #rsac2018 @RSAConference 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/6nLfauIxNk

[Maddie Stone @maddiestone]

So you've learned asm syntax & don't know what to do next? This writeup by @bcdannyboy shows you how common patterns in C++ code map to asm instructions to get your started in reverse engineering. https://t.co/LFE12UtsfL

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

1 hour and 5 diagrams later I optimized 100 lines of code that ran in 13 seconds to 20 lines of heavily vectorized code that runs in 0.02 seconds, and this might just be the best day of my life, so far.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

Guide to iOS estimated passcode cracking times (assumes random decimal passcode + an exploit that breaks SEP throttling):

4 digits: ~13min worst (~6.5avg)
6 digits: ~22.2hrs worst (~11.1avg)
8 digits: ~92.5days worst (~46avg)
10 digits: ~9259days worst (~4629avg)

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

This paper looks interesting. Using Rowhammer to generate “physically unclonable functions” — uniquely identify and authenticate a computer by imperfections in its DRAM. https://t.co/DvqKfzpLhv (ht @alisaesage)

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

I wrote a blog post about hash-based signatures, just because. https://t.co/xYPBjNYlIE

[Justin Johnson @jcjohnss]

My new paper on generating images from scene graphs using graph convolution and GANs is up on arXiv! To appear at CVPR2018, with @agrimgupta92 and @drfeifei https://t.co/jtwSENFbAH

[briankrebs @briankrebs]

https://t.co/Y2Phv4yUdo, the Web site for the bakery-cafe chain by the same name, leaked millions of customer records -- including names, DOBs, email/street addresses, last 4 of credit card -- until today: https://t.co/S3sIx99HyG Worst part: They were first notified 8 months ago

[matt blaze @mattblaze]

The nightmare voting security scenario for a democracy isn't just stolen elections, but disrupted elections, where there's disagreement about who takes office. Current electronic voting systems aren't designed to effectively resist this, especially when state actors are involved.