Calling all teams from the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland): #saarCTF 2024 is a DHM Qualifier! The highest ranking eligible DACH team in our CTF will qualify to compete.
For more information visit https://t.co/YdSMHyeKk9
With almost *an entire week* left to spare, the registration for saarCTF 2024 is now open! https://t.co/YdSMHyeKk9
Remember the IRC and don't forget to check our new pinned account for all future announcements👀
The bad news is there is a vulnerability in the CUPS printer system on Linux. The good news is nobody has ever gotten their printer working on Linux so they are safe.
Another conference, another set of @CISPA faculty cards. Find us at @USENIXSecurity in Philadelphia, learn quirky "facts" about us (hint: we are not all just about serious science all the time), and be invited to our networking event on August 14 if you can collect five.
This is your reminder that we still solicit (self-)nominations for the 2025 EuroS&P PC. If you have published at top security, privacy, or crypto venues before, nominate yourself. If you know others who'd fit, nominate them. Nominations will be considered until end of July.
📣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
https://t.co/g0xNNKqquA
Blacklisting a string is the best security measure.
Works especially well for potentially malicious user input!
Follow for more security tips and tricks 💻
State of the art anti-cheat techniques:
Roblox detects if you have the string "x86dbg" in a window title (or window?), so kids are changing their display names and discord server names to x86dbg to get people kicked from Roblox.