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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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At #usenix #osdi25 this week, ready for some great talks https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/technical-sessions
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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
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Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/memory-safety-merely-table-stakes
#HackerNews #MemorySafety #TableStakes #CyberSecurity #SoftwareDevelopment #Usenix
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Looks like I'll be attending The Last USENIX ATC (and OSDI)
Boston, July 7–9
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Looks like I'll be attending The Last USENIX ATC (and OSDI)
Boston, July 7–9
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Looks like I'll be attending The Last USENIX ATC (and OSDI)
Boston, July 7–9
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Looks like I'll be attending The Last USENIX ATC (and OSDI)
Boston, July 7–9
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Looks like I'll be attending The Last USENIX ATC (and OSDI)
Boston, July 7–9
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I am pleased to announce that our second paper got accepted at #USENIX Security 2025!
Two fantastic visiting students conducted the work Tristan Bilot and Baoxiang Jiang at UBC CS with the help of Zefeng Li.
Paper: https://tfjmp.org/publications/2025-usenixsec-2.pdf
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USENIX will discontinue its annual technical conference after the 2025 event
https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/USENIX-Annual-Technical-Conference-To-Be-Discontinued?utm_source=mam
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The #USENIX ATC is where I gave my first conference talk, and I have very fond memories of speaking there.
And now they have decided to stop holding them.
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Really disappointed to learn of the demise of the #USENIX Annual Technical Conference. It was the flagship conference of the USENIX organization and a hub for the dissemination of computing research. I hope USENIX itself is somehow able to continue to thrive. https://lwn.net/Articles/1020306/ #atc #usenixatc
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Theory-heavy way of looking at reliability issues, which also includes suggestions on how to write about incidents: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/evolution-sre-google
It gives an introduction to STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes), which I had never heard of before reading this.
The book they reference, by MIT professor Nancy Leveson is available free online! https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied
I have some reading to do!
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Theory-heavy way of looking at reliability issues, which also includes suggestions on how to write about incidents: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/evolution-sre-google
It gives an introduction to STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes), which I had never heard of before reading this.
The book they reference, by MIT professor Nancy Leveson is available free online! https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied
I have some reading to do!
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Theory-heavy way of looking at reliability issues, which also includes suggestions on how to write about incidents: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/evolution-sre-google
It gives an introduction to STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes), which I had never heard of before reading this.
The book they reference, by MIT professor Nancy Leveson is available free online! https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied
I have some reading to do!
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Theory-heavy way of looking at reliability issues, which also includes suggestions on how to write about incidents: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/evolution-sre-google
It gives an introduction to STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes), which I had never heard of before reading this.
The book they reference, by MIT professor Nancy Leveson is available free online! https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied
I have some reading to do!
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Theory-heavy way of looking at reliability issues, which also includes suggestions on how to write about incidents: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/evolution-sre-google
It gives an introduction to STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes), which I had never heard of before reading this.
The book they reference, by MIT professor Nancy Leveson is available free online! https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied
I have some reading to do!
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USENIX NSDI ’24 – Accelerating Skewed Workloads With Performance Multipliers in the TurboDB Distributed Database – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/usenix-nsdi-24-accelerating-skewed-workloads-with-performance-multipliers-in-the-turbodb-distributed-database-source-securityboulevard-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SecurityBloggersNetwork #networkinfrastructure #OpenAccessResearch #CyberSecurityNews #SecurityBoulevard #SecurityResearch #USENIXNSDI24 #USENIX
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USENIX NSDI ’24 – Accelerating Skewed Workloads With Performance Multipliers in the TurboDB Distributed Database – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/usenix-nsdi-24-accelerating-skewed-workloads-with-performance-multipliers-in-the-turbodb-distributed-database-source-securityboulevard-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SecurityBloggersNetwork #networkinfrastructure #OpenAccessResearch #CyberSecurityNews #SecurityBoulevard #SecurityResearch #USENIXNSDI24 #USENIX
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USENIX NSDI ’24 – Accelerating Skewed Workloads With Performance Multipliers in the TurboDB Distributed Database – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/usenix-nsdi-24-accelerating-skewed-workloads-with-performance-multipliers-in-the-turbodb-distributed-database-source-securityboulevard-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SecurityBloggersNetwork #networkinfrastructure #OpenAccessResearch #CyberSecurityNews #SecurityBoulevard #SecurityResearch #USENIXNSDI24 #USENIX
