Associate Prof. in CS @UTwente | Security researcher | Hacker @shellphish | Proud Sicilian 🌋🍻
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Andrea Continella retweeted
Apr 28
(1/n) New research on Windows malware, to appear at ACM ASIA CCS 2026 [1]:
"SoK: Systematization, Detection, and Hunting of Windows Malware Persistence Techniques" [2]
This work is a collaboration between EURECOM and the University of Twente.
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Andrea Continella retweeted
📢 CFP Update: #EuroSec2026 Deadline Extended!
The submission deadline has been postponed—more time to submit your systems security work.
🗓 New deadline: Feb 10, 2026(AoE)
🔗eurosec26.hotcrp.com/
#CFP #InfoSec #SystemsSecurity
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Andrea Continella retweeted
Jan 26
Part 2 dropped. 🧵[1/2]
tl;dr: your slides are not your talk.
skip the template
skip the agenda (no spoilers)
skip the "about me" ego slide
💣 start from the LAST slide: your 280-char core message 😱
then work backward.
Full framework slides ...
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Andrea Continella retweeted
16 Dec 2025
🚨 CFP OPEN: #EuroSec2026 🚨
The 19th European Workshop on Systems Security, co-located with #EuroSys2026 in Edinburgh 🇬🇧
📅 Deadline: Feb 3, 2026 (AoE)
📍 Submit: eurosec26.hotcrp.com/
Bring your best systems security ideas! 🔐💡
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Andrea Continella retweeted
3 Oct 2025
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…
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Andrea Continella retweeted
8 Aug 2025
Hello hackers! Excited for @DEFCON tomorrow? Make sure to stop by @DEFCONAcademy, a brand new community effort to provide a path for everyone to LEARN TO HACK. Read on for the details! 🧵
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9 Jun 2025
📢 We are looking for an Assistant Professor on Security in Twente: utwentecareers.nl/en/vacanci…
Feel free to reach out for any questions!
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Andrea Continella retweeted
12 May 2025
[1/3] Turns out those old MDS gadgets have new life... In our latest paper at @IEEESSP , we show how attackers can construct PRELOAD TIME, a new cache side-channel which takes advantage of these 'half-Spectre' gadgets.
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Andrea Continella retweeted
24 Jan 2025
Only 7 days left to submit your paper to #EuroSec2025!🚀
Deadline: Jan 31, 2025 (AoE)
Join us in Rotterdam on March 31!
Submit now: eurosec25.hotcrp.com
Details: eurosec-workshop.github.io
#SystemsSecurity #EuroSys2025 #EuroSecWorkshop
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Andrea Continella retweeted
13 Jan 2025
Excited to announce the CfP for #EuroSec2025, co-located with @EuroSysConf!
Submit your finest ideas here: eurosec25.hotcrp.com
Deadline: January 31, 2025.
For details and submission guidelines, visit: eurosec-workshop.github.io
#EuroSecWorkshop #SystemsSecurity #EuroSys2025
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16 Dec 2024
📢 Postdoc Position on Formal Methods for Software Security
Deadline: 24 Jan 2025
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Andrea Continella retweeted
11 Aug 2024
WE QUALIFIED FOR AIxCC FINALS!!!!
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19 Jul 2024
#DIMVA24 @DIMVAConf was a blast! See you all next year 👋
The slides of my keynote are available at conand.me/presentations/DIMV…
18 Jul 2024
#DIMVA24 @DIMVAConf is off to an amazing start. 84 attendees flocked to Lausanne to mingle and talk about security. After an intro by Manuel Egele, @_conand is kicking us off by talking about challenges of analyzing firmware
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Andrea Continella retweeted
18 Jul 2024
#DIMVA24 @DIMVAConf is off to an amazing start. 84 attendees flocked to Lausanne to mingle and talk about security. After an intro by Manuel Egele, @_conand is kicking us off by talking about challenges of analyzing firmware
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13 May 2024
📢 We are looking for PhDs in software security @UTwente.
If you enjoy low-level hacking, automated exploit generation, vulnerability analysis, etc. check this out!
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Andrea Continella retweeted
10 May 2024
📢PostDoc on Trustworthy AI for Systems Security on Code Representation Learning @uclisec @uclcs @ucl collab w. Suman Jana @Columbia📢
Excited on (AI program analysis) for security? bit.ly/S2LabLearnCodeRepr
Appetite? See S2Lab papers arxiv.org/abs/2308.03312 (ICML 2024) RT🙏
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10 May 2024
Looking forward to talking about firmware security at #DIMVA24! See you in Lausanne
5 May 2024
Are you as excited about #DIMVA24 as we are? Join us Jul17-19 in Lausanne @EPFL_en @ICepfl for great papers, a poster session (deadline Jun14) and two amazing keynotes by @_conand and @veelasha_m. The registration is open now! dimva.org/dimva2024/#program Please RT
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Andrea Continella retweeted
5 May 2024
Are you as excited about #DIMVA24 as we are? Join us Jul17-19 in Lausanne @EPFL_en @ICepfl for great papers, a poster session (deadline Jun14) and two amazing keynotes by @_conand and @veelasha_m. The registration is open now! dimva.org/dimva2024/#program Please RT
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Andrea Continella retweeted
22 Apr 2024
📢🚨I'm happy to announce that I'm organizing IEEE CSF 2024 in Enschede, the Netherlands, on July 8-12!
Registration is now open, see info in the tweet below.
Early registration deadline: *** June 14, 2024 ***
See accepted papers at: csf2024.ieee-security.org/ac…
16 Apr 2024
Registration for IEEE CSF 2024 just opened. Don't miss this year's excellent program and register at csf2024.ieee-security.org/re…
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Andrea Continella retweeted
11 Jan 2024
Excited to announce the CfP for #EuroSec2024 — please submit your finest ideas! Deadline: February 14, 2024. #EuroSecWorkshop #Eurosys2024 secopera.eu/eurosec-2024/
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