Another year, another CCC. As every year, I went to Hamburg to appreciate all galactic life forms in their diverse multi-dimensional environment. My goal this year was the usual meet ups with friends I haven't seen in a long time, get inspired for new research directions, to catch some talks …
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SuRI'25 on Security, Systems, and Formal Methods
The Summer Research Institute (SuRI) is a premier venue to discuss recent research results. Each year we invite the top faculty in a given topic to present their research in front of an interested crowd of students, faculty, researchers, fellows from EPFL, the Vaud area, Switzerland, and abroad.
This year …
read moreNDSS25: Exploring San Diego
What a great time at the NDSS Symposium in San Diego. While it is always about meeting friends, catching up on projects, discussing new and exciting research and looking for potential collaborations, the HexHive lab also had the pleasure to present a total of four research papers at this conference …
read more38c3: Hutzelwutze in Hamburg
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 …
read more37c3: 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 …
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