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🏆 Congratulations to COSIC researcher Tim Vlummens and co-authors! Their paper, "Bridges to Self: Silent Web-to-App Tracking on Mobile via Localhost", received the Internet Defense Prize 2026 at #USENIX Security Symposium and was also selected as a Distinguished Paper.
Link to paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity26/presentation/vlummens
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Researchers at the University of Birmingham and the Security Firm Fuzzware shows that a malicious SIM Card can run Attacker Code inside the Modems behind Cellular IoT Devices - Paper at #USENIX WOOT 2026 Conference #Infosec https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot26/presentation/lisowski
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🏆 Congratulations to COSIC researcher Tim Vlummens and co-authors!
Their paper, "Bridges to Self: Silent Web-to-App Tracking on Mobile via Localhost", received the Internet Defense Prize 2026 at #USENIX Security Symposium and was also selected as a Distinguished Paper.
Their research revealed how Meta and Yandex used localhost communication on Android to link web browsing data to app identities, bypassing privacy protections designed to separate web and app contexts.
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🔐 Attending USENIX in Baltimore? Join @steiza tomorrow for:
Supply Chain Attacks on Open Source: What’s Happening, What Can We Do Today, and What’s Next
📅 August 13, 2026
🕟 4:30 PM
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🚀🤖 Oh, because everyone was just *dying* to co-opt Linux processes for network simulation. #USENIX serves up a riveting tale of registration discounts and hotel logistics—truly a must-read for anyone who finds reality TV too intellectually stimulating. 🙄📉
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/jansen #LinuxProcesses #NetworkSimulation #RegistrationDiscounts #RealityTV #HackerNews #ngated -
I'll have to try and find the exact conference presentation later - might be interesting to rewatch now. Maybe I can grep through infocon.org
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OTD 1982: Boston #USENIX conference.
First "trade show" for #SunMicrosystems. -
Ah, the classic #Usenix #Unix poster, because nothing screams cutting-edge tech like a vintage wall decoration! 🎨✨ On #GitHub, no less, because where else would you want to annotate 'magic' that even your grandpa's computer wouldn't understand? 🖥️🔮 It's a riveting read—if you're a time-traveling developer stuck in the 1980s. ⏳🤖
https://github.com/drio/unixmagic #vintageTech #retroComputing #timeTravelingDeveloper #1980sNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
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Our new Android attack, #TapTrap, is getting media coverage. Here's a quick explainer.
It's a new tapjacking technique that exploits Android's UI animations to hijack user taps without requiring any permissions. @beerphilipp will present it at #USENIX Sec'25.
Unlike classic tapjacking, TapTrap uses Android's built-in activity transition animations to launch a transparent activity on top of the attacker's app. The user thinks they're tapping a harmless button, but the tap goes to a permission/system prompt, a browser, or a sensitive app without notice.
It works on Android 15 & 16, while @GrapheneOS has recently issued a fix. Major browsers such as Chrome and Firefox promptly patched after we disclosed the vulnerability. We also analyzed ~100K Play Store apps finding that TapTrap is currently not being exploited in the wild.
This effort is the result of a collaboration with @beerphilipp, Sebastian Roth and @lindorferin. Kudos to Philipp for discovering the issue and doing the heavy lifting. And thanks Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) for making this research possible and supporting us ♥️
See you at #USENIX in Seattle next month!
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Day 2, again lots of great OSDI talks. My favorite was a systematic analysis of sequential performance optimization in practice.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/presentation/park-sujin https://github.com/sslab-gatech/SysGPT
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The keynote was pretty good as well, lots of good developer tools coming out of https://github.com/plasma-umass #usenix #osdi25
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Busy first day. I was very tempted by the ATC tracks but stuck with OSDI today. My favorite talk was probably Enabling Efficient GPU Communication over Multiple NICs with FuseLink https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/presentation/ren but there were so many good ones…
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celebration time!
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At #usenix #osdi25 this week, ready for some great talks https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/technical-sessions
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Another 👌🏽 one — #phkmalloc in #FreeBSD:
“phkmalloc”, Poul-Henning Kamp (https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/phkmalloc/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432900
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/6bduaj/phkmalloc
