Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 193,  September 28, 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

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

    • Poison Passcodes Do Not Amuse
    • Water, Water, Everywhere
    • Fake Account? What Fake Account?
    • A Secret Chinese Network Hidden in The InternetThe Atkinson, Topeka, and the Nanjing Line
    • FBI Applicants Exposed

  • 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 E192 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • SaTML 2027 IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning,
    Reykjavik, Iceland, 8-10 May, 2027,
    *Submission date: 29 September, 2026
  • NSS 2026 International Conference on Network and System Security,
    Hangzhou, China, 30 October - 1 November, 2026,
    *Submission date: 30 September, 2026
  • SocialSec 2026 International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data,
    Hangzhou, China, 30 October - 1 November, 2026,
    *Submission date: 30 September, 2026
  • ISPA 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications,
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27-30 December, 2026,
    *Submission date: 30 September, 2026
  • MarCaS 2026 IEEE LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security,
    Coimbra, Portugal, 7-9 October, 2026
  • SSS 2026 International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems,
    Gothenburg, Sweden, 9-11 October, 2026
  • DSC 2026 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing,
    New York City, NY, USA, 9-11 October, 2026
  • TSAICD 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy and Secure AI for Cyber Defense,
    New York City, NY, USA, 9-11 October, 2026
  • RAID 2026 International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses,
    Lancaster, UK, 11-14 October, 2026
  • FPS 2026 International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security,
    Gatineau, Canada, 13-16 October, 2026
  • CSF 2027 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium,
    Tokyo, Japan, 13-17 September, 2027,
    *Submission date: 15 October, 2026
  • ISC 2026 Information Security Conference,
    Rennes, France, 28-30 October, 2026
  • NSS 2026 International Conference on Network and System Security,
    Hangzhou, China, 30 October - 1 November, 2026
  • SocialSec 2026 International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data,
    Hangzhou, China, 30 October - 1 November, 2026
  • XRSecurity 2026 Workshop on Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Extended Reality Systems,
    Austin, TX, USA, 30 October, 2026
  • HOST 2027 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust,
    Washington, DC, USA, 3-6 May, 2027,
    *Submission date: 1 November, 2026
  • FHE 2027 FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption,
    Seattle, WA, USA, 4 April, 2027,
    *Submission date: 1 November, 2026
  • eCrime 2026 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research,
    Lisbon, Portugal, 2-6 November, 2026
  • ACM PQQS 2026 ACM Conference on Post-Quantum and Quantum-based Security,
    San Jose, CA, USA, 2-4 November, 2026
  • RISC 2026 IEEE International Conference on Resilience and Integrated Security for Space and Critical Systems,
    San Jose, CA, USA, 4-6 November, 2026
  • TPS 2026 IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications,
    San Jose, CA, USA, 4-6 November, 2026
  • Nullcon 2026 Nullcon Security Conference,
    Berlin, Germany, 5-6 November, 2026
  • HOST 2027 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust,
    Washington, DC, USA, 3-6 May, 2027,
    *Submission date: 8 November, 2026
  • SCIEN 2026 International Workshop on Secure Cryptographic Implementations and Engineering,
    Hong Kong, SAR, China, 8 November, 2026
  • cyberscitech 2026 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress,
    Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 November, 2026
  • DASC 2026 IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing,
    Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 November, 2026
  • S&P 2027 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
    Montreal, Canada, TBA
  • S&P 2027 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
    Montreal, Canada, TBA,
    *Submission date: 10 November, 2026
  • AISEC 2026 ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security,
    The Hague, Netherlands, 15 November, 2026
  • CCS 2026 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security,
    The Hague, Netherlands, 15-19 November, 2026
  • WTMC 2026 International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity,
    The Hague, Netherlands, 15-19 November, 2026
  • CODASPY 2027 ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy,
    Fort Collins, CO, USA, 14-17 June, 2027,
    *Submission date: 16 November, 2026
  • S&P 2027 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
    Montreal, Canada, TBA,
    *Submission date: 17 November, 2026
  • EuroSnP 2027 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy,
    Lisbon, Portugal, 6-10 July, 2027,
    *Submission date: 20 November, 2026
  • CANS 2026 International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security,
    Wollongong, Australia, 23-25 November, 2026
  • CODASPY 2027 ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy,
    Fort Collins, CO, USA, 14-17 June, 2027,
    *Submission date: 23 November, 2026
  • IWSEC 2026 International Workshop on Security,
    Tokyo, Japan, 24-26 November, 2026
  • CRiSIS 2026 International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems,
    Rabat, Morocco, 25-27 November, 2026
  • CSCML 2026 International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning,
    Virtual, 3-4 December, 2026,
    *Submission date: 25 November, 2026
  • PETS 2027 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium,
    Delft, Netherlands, 19-24 July, 2027,
    *Submission date: 30 November, 2026
  • CSCML 2026 International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning,
    Virtual, 3-4 December, 2026
  • IEEE ACSAC 2026 IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference,
    Los Angeles, CA, USA, 7-11 December, 2026
  • PasswordsCon 2026 Passwords Conference,
    Cork, Ireland, 7-9 December, 2026
  • CSET 2026 USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test,
    Los Angeles, CA, USA, 8 December, 2026
  • HealthSec 2026 Cybersecurity In Healthcare Workshop,
    Los Angeles, CA, USA, 8 December, 2026
  • SSR 2026 Security Standardisation Research Conference,
    Baltimore, MD, USA, 13-15 December, 2026
  • CrCo 2026 IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding,
    Cirencester, UK, 15-16 December, 2026
  • ICDF2C 2027 EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime,
    New York, USA, 25-27 June, 2027,
    *Submission date: 15 December, 2026
  • CSCI-RTCW 2026 Research Track on Cyber Warfare, Cyber Defense, and Cyber Security,
    Las Vegas, NV, USA, 16-18 December, 2026
  • ICISS 2026 International Conference on Information Systems Security,
    Chennai, India, 16-20 December, 2026
  • ISPA 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications,
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27-30 December, 2026
  • USENIXSec 2027 USENIX Security Symposium,
    Denver, CO, USA, 11-13 August, 2027,
    *Submission date: 19 January, 2027
  • ACNS 2027 25th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security,
    Egham, UK, 28 June - 1 July, 2027,
    *Submission date: 21 January, 2027
  • USENIXSec 2027 USENIX Security Symposium,
    Denver, CO, USA, 11-13 August, 2027,
    *Submission date: 26 January, 2027
  • ICITS 2027 International Conference on Information Technology and Systems,
    Cusco, Peru, 27-29 January, 2027
  • CSF 2027 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium,
    Tokyo, Japan, 13-17 September, 2027,
    *Submission date: 28 January, 2027
  • SECRYPT 2027 International Conference on Security and Cryptography,
    Rome, Italy, 20-22 July, 2027,
    *Submission date: 16 February, 2027
  • PETS 2027 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium,
    Delft, Netherlands, 19-24 July, 2027,
    *Submission date: 28 February, 2027
  • PerCom 2027 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications,
    Goa, India, 8-12 March, 2027
  • SPT-IoT 2027 IEEE PerCom Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Things,
    Goa, India, 8-12 March, 2027
  • NDSS 2027 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium,
    Seoul, Republic of Korea, 22-26 March, 2027
  • SECRYPT 2027 International Conference on Security and Cryptography,
    Rome, Italy, 20-22 July, 2027,
    *Submission date: 23 March, 2027
  • DFCEurope 2027 Digital Forensics Conference Europe,
    Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 March - 2 April, 2027
  • SciSec 2027 International Conference on Science of Cyber Security,
    Gjøvik, Norway, 22-24 June, 2027,
    *Submission date: 2 April, 2027
  • FHE 2027 FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption,
    Seattle, WA, USA, 4 April, 2027
  • PST 2027 Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust,
    Sheffield, UK, 25-27 August, 2027,
    *Submission date: 10 April, 2027
  • HOST 2027 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust,
    Washington, DC, USA, 3-6 May, 2027
  • SaTML 2027 IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning,
    Reykjavik, Iceland, 8-10 May, 2027
  • CODASPY 2027 ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy,
    Fort Collins, CO, USA, 14-17 June, 2027
  • SciSec 2027 International Conference on Science of Cyber Security,
    Gjøvik, Norway, 22-24 June, 2027
  • ICDF2C 2027 EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime,
    New York, USA, 25-27 June, 2027
  • ACNS 2027 25th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security,
    Egham, UK, 28 June - 1 July, 2027
  • EuroSnP 2027 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy,
    Lisbon, Portugal, 6-10 July, 2027
  • PETS 2027 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium,
    Delft, Netherlands, 19-24 July, 2027
  • SECRYPT 2027 International Conference on Security and Cryptography,
    Rome, Italy, 20-22 July, 2027
  • SOUPS 2027 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security,
    Denver, CO, USA, 8-10 August, 2027
  • USENIXSec 2027 USENIX Security Symposium,
    Denver, CO, USA, 11-13 August, 2027
  • PST 2027 Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust,
    Sheffield, UK, 25-27 August, 2027
  • CSF 2027 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium,
    Tokyo, Japan, 13-17 September, 2027
   

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