Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 190,  March 30, 2026 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 book, Securing Industrial Control Systems - Advanced Strategies and Technologies
    by Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Syed Bahauddin Alam, Kishor Datta Gupta, Roy George, Sunzida Siddique, and Kazuma Kobayashi

  • News from the Media: 

    • AI Creates Teams of Hacking Agents
    • OpenClaw Bites the Hand that Serves It
    • The Citizen Hacker
    • Medical Tech Company Victim of Iranian Cyberattack
    • Department of State Protects the Homeland
    • AppArmor Hands Over Unauthenticated Policy Data
    • America First in Routers

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 

• 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 E189 (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.
  • SciSec 2026 8th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, Beijing, China, May 29 - 31, 2026.
    Submission date: 31 March 2026.
  • SSS 2026 28th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 9-11, 2026.
    Submission date: 31 March 2026, 15 May 2026, and 15 July 2026.
  • APF 2026 Annual Privacy Forum 2026, Salzburg, Austria, September 9-10, 2026.
    Submission date: 1 April 2026.
  • AI-SS 2026 1st International Workshop on AI Safety and Security, Co-located with the 21st European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC 2026), Canterbury, UK, April 7, 2026.
  • DCS-CI 2026 International Conference on Design of Cyber-Secure Critical Infrastructure, Buford, Georgia, USA, September 2 - 3, 2026.
    Submission date: 13 April 2026.
  • ICSC 2026 Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, September 15 - 18, 2026.
    Submission date: 15 April 2026.
  • SECRYPT 2026 23rd International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Porto, Portugal, July 16 - 18, 2026.
    Submission date: 16 April 2026.
  • ESORICS 2026 31st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Rome, Italy, September 21 - 25, 2026.
    Submission date: 9 January 2026 and 21 April 2026.
  • ACM CCS 2026 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Hague, The Netherlands, November 15-19, 2026.
    Submission date: 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.
  • SSS 2026 28th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 9-11, 2026.
    Submission date: 31 March 2026, 15 May 2026, and 15 July 2026.
  • EDId 2026 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities, Co-located with the 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2026), Linkšping, Sweden, August 24-27, 2026.
    Submission date: 18 May 2026.
  • APWG eCrime 2026 21st Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2 - 6, 2026.
    Submission date: 30 May 2026.
  • SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 18-21, 2026.
  • ACM ASIACCS 2026 21st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Bangalore, India, June 1-5, 2026.
  • ICBC 2026 8th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Brisbane, Australia, 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.
  • CODASPY 2026 16th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 23 - 25, 2026.
  • IWSPA 2026 12th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, Held in conjunction with the 16th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2026), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 24, 2026.
  • SaT-CPS 2026 ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems, Held in conjunction with the 16th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2026), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 25, 2026.
  • ACM WiSec 2026 19th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Saarbrucken, Germany, June 30 - July 3, 2026.
  • SSS 2026 28th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 9-11, 2026.
    Submission date: 31 March 2026, 15 May 2026, and 15 July 2026.
  • SECRYPT 2026 23rd International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Porto, Portugal, July 16 - 18, 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.
  • DFRWS-USA 2026 26th Digital Forensics Research USA Conference, Arlington, Virginia, USA, July 27 - 30, 2026.
  • CSR 2026 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, Lisbon, Portugal, August 3 - 5, 2026.
  • USENIX Security 2026 35th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 12-14, 2026.
  • EDId 2026 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities, Co-located with the 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2026), Linkšping, Sweden, August 24-27, 2026.
  • DCS-CI 2026 International Conference on Design of Cyber-Secure Critical Infrastructure, Buford, Georgia, USA, September 2 - 3, 2026.
  • ICDF2C 2026 17th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 8 - 10, 2026.
  • APF 2026 Annual Privacy Forum 2026, Salzburg, Austria, September 9-10, 2026.
  • SCN 2026 15th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, Amalfi (SA), Italy, September 14 - 16, 2026.
  • ICSC 2026 Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, September 15 - 18, 2026.
  • ESORICS 2026 31st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Rome, Italy, September 21 - 25, 2026.
  • SSS 2026 28th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 9-11, 2026.
  • APWG eCrime 2026 21st Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2 - 6, 2026.
  • ACM CCS 2026 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Hague, The Netherlands, November 15-19, 2026.

 

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