Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 188,  December 8, 2025 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Sven Dietrich, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Yong Guan, Calendar Editor

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Sven Dietrich's review of The Ghidra Book - The Definitive Guide by Chris Eagle and Kara Nance

  • NewsBits:  Announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

    • In Memoriam: Daniel J. Edwards
    • It's Not the Mortar, It's the Brick
    • Your Beverage Is Being Held for Ransom
    • Bitcoin ATMs: Easier Than Gambling
    • Crash the Internet?
    • Seriously, Another Deserialization Bug?!

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 

• Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
  

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• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
    Requests for inclusion in the list should be sent per instructions.
      new calls or announcements added since Cipher E187 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • IEEE Transactions on Privacy.
    Submission date: On-going.
  • HOST 2026 19th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, Washington DC, USA, May 4-7, 2026. Submission dates: 1 September 2025 and 8 December 2025.
  • ACSAC 2025 41th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 8-12, 2025.
  • HealthSec 2025 Workshop on Cybersecurity in Healthcare, Co-located with the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC41), Honolulu, HI, USA, December 9, 2025.
  • ACM ASIACCS 2026 21st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Bangalore, India, June 1-5, 2026. Submission dates: 25 August 2025 and 12 December 2025.
  • ICISS 2025 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security, Indore, India, December 16-20, 2025
  • IFIP 119 DF 2026 22nd Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, India, January 5-6, 2026.
  • ICBC 2026 8th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Brisbane, Australia, June 1-5, 2026.
    Submission date: 7 January 2026.
  • ACM CCS 2026 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Hague, The Netherlands, November 15-19, 2026.
    Submission dates: 7 January 2026 and 22 April 2026.
  • CSF 2026 39th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Colocated with FLoC 2026, Lisbon Portugal, July 26-29, 2026.
    Submission dates: 24 July 2025, 9 October 2025, and 29 January 2026.
  • CSF 2026 39th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Colocated with FLoC 2026, Lisbon Portugal, July 26-29, 2026.
    Submission dates: 24 July 2025, 9 October 2025, and 29 January 2026.
  • USENIX Security 2026 35th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 12-14, 2026.
    Submission dates: 19 August 2025 and 29 January 2026.
  • AMASS 2026 Workshop on Advances in Malware Analysis and Software Security, Held in conjunction with ACM ASIACCS, Bangalore, India, June 2, 2026.
    Submission dates: 31 January 2026.
  • NDSS 2026 Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, CA, USA, February 23-27, 2026.
  • PETS 2026 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Calgary, Canada, July 20-25, 2026.
    Submission dates: 31 May 2025, 31 August 2025, 30 November 2025, and 28 February 2026.
  • ACM WiSec 2026 19th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Saarbrucken, Germany, June 30 - July 3, 2026.
    Submission dates: 18 November 2025 and 3 March 2026.
  • Electronics Journal, Special Issue on Data Privacy Protection in Blockchain Systems.
    Submission date: 15 March 2026.
  • SaTML 2026 4th IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, Munich, Germany, March 23-25, 2026.
  • ACM CCS 2026 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Hague, The Netherlands, November 15-19, 2026.
    Submission dates: 7 January 2026 and 22 April 2026.
  • HOST 2026 19th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, Washington DC, USA, May 4-7, 2026.
  • SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 18-21, 2026.
  • ICBC 2026 8th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Brisbane, Australia, June 1-5, 2026.
  • ACM ASIACCS 2026 21st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Bangalore, India, June 1-5, 2026.
  • AMASS 2026 Workshop on Advances in Malware Analysis and Software Security, Held in conjunction with ACM ASIACCS, Bangalore, India, June 2, 2026.
  • ACM WiSec 2026 19th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Saarbrucken, Germany, June 30 - July 3, 2026.
  • PETS 2026 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Calgary, Canada, July 20-25, 2026.
  • CSF 2026 39th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Colocated with FLoC 2026, Lisbon Portugal, July 26-29, 2026.
  • USENIX Security 2026 35th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 12-14, 2026.
  • ACM CCS 2026 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Hague, The Netherlands, November 15-19, 2026.

 

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