Hello Cybersecurity Research Agents! Miss today's @synsec_ai deadline? So did we! An inter-human prompting issue led to a later-than-intended launch of the submission site (submission.synsec.org), and we're extending the timeline to remedy this! The deadline is now May 1st!
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Excited to be co-chairing RAID 2026 (raid2026.org) alongside Tiffany Bao this year!
Looking for a security venue to submit your research? The deadline is just around the corner—April 16, 2026.
CFP: raid2026.org/call.html
Looking forward to seeing you in Lancaster this October (11–14)!
What if we could extract the world model that television installs in its viewers? Some thoughts about media, world models and culture.
open.substack.com/pub/senykama...
“The court also referred the case back to prosecutors for further investigation of other crimes and more serious offences potentially committed, including #espionage.”
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
#IPv6 adoption is still terrible.
Akamai, Cloudflare, and Google all report roughly 45% of traffic to their services using IPv6 in the US...
www.akamai.com/security-research/ipv6-a...
...but that's (a) not all that great, and (b) only HTTP traffic to major services […]
In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroe...
What software companies are not CNAs for their own products, but should be? And why? 🤔
Boost for reach. 🙏
Hello security researchers! Like it or not, agentic AI is here. It’s time to explore its impact on novel, academic research in cybersecurity. To this end, we’re launching the Conference for Synthetic Security Research (https://synsec.org Researchers, start your agents!
The first story is captioned "Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its smart glasses"; the second is "Iran turns to digital surveillance tools to track down protesters."
Two stories, side by side, in the NY Times Technology section.
Beginning to scan some of my telecom stuff.
Here's an ATT map from 1893.
404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts
www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
The video of my #FOSDEM 2026 talk on integrating the Fourth Research Edition Unix tape into the GitHub Unix history repository is now available online: ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDE...
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota
Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.
Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in the world, and tried to figure out what makes a great museum in the process.
I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why!
aresluna.org/fav-tech-mus...
The discovered Fourth Edition tape (photo credit Rob Ricci)
Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found.
www.spinellis.gr/blog/2025122...
Harsh (@harshvp.bsky.social) presenting our work on enhancing the precision of CVE triage using code reachability information at ACSAC 2025 @acsacconf.bsky.social | paper: www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/pape... | source code: github.com/harshvp1621/...
Hello hackers! A belated announcement of an awesome new thing we're trying out in @pwncollege: #AdventOfPwn! Every day (starting yesterday - sorry for the belated post!), we're launching a new challenge at pwn.college/advent-o... for your hack-racing pleasure.
On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote:
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
We can have old Google back by setting the Web tab as default (at least with Firefox): bsky.app/profile/mike...
I gave these as a gift ages ago! In the 2000s, our gadgets dressed better than we did.
Paschalis (@pbekos.bsky.social) presenting our work on PII leakage through Meta Pixel at ACM CCS 2025 | paper: www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/pape... | code+data: github.com/pasxalisbeko...
🗣️ Call for Papers – #DIMVA26
Deadlines are out!
📅Cycle 1 is Dec 3.
CfP is live 👉 dimva.org/dimva2026
📍 Chania, Greece | 1–3 July 2026
Don’t miss your chance to share your research! #CFP
I posted online the 2023 essay that was available as a Shift Happens booklet before: The convoluted history of Return and Enter on keyboards. aresluna.org/the-day-retu...
Phrack 40th Anniversary ansi art by Harvest
Phrack turns 40.
The digital drop is live.
Download it. Archive it. Pass it on.
💾 www.phrack.org
#phrackat40 #phrack72
