This year I am co-organizing Heise devSeC(), a new developer conference on secure software engineering. We welcome your submission by May 8th!
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Join us at ESEC/FSE 2017 – in September in Paderborn
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NRW’s research agenda on Human-centered Systems Security
We have now released the IT-security agenda which Thorsten Holz, Norbert Pohlmann, Matthew Smith and Jörg Hoffmann have proposed for our state of North-Rhine Westphalia. As one of the probably first major research endeavours worldwide it will put the humans into the focus of the IT-security research. The agenda is available for download here.
Harvester scores 1st place at German IT-Sicherheitspreis
Copyright: Catharina Frank
Harvester has scored 1st place at this year’s German IT-Sicherheitspreis! Every two years, the Horst Görtz Foundation awards EUR 200,000 to the three winners, with the first place being awarded EUR 100,000. More at Heise (in German)
Many thanks to the judges and the foundation! Harvester will is planned to be available soon as a plugin into our CodeInspect framework. We are further thinking of providing a command-line version to interested customers.
An In-Depth Study of More Than Ten Years of Java Exploitation
I am happy and proud to present our first CCS paper! Co-authored with Philipp Holzinger, Stefan Triller and Alexandre Bartel, we present an in-depth study of all available Java exploits we were able to find online. The exploits cover all different sorts of attack vectors and more than 15 years, they highlight important weaknesses in the Java runtime. The study explains in detail the different weaknesses the exploits exploit. The paper is available here already. Further, we will soon make available some artifacts on this website (not the exploits, though).
Thanks to Marco Pistoia for his constructive feedback and Julian Dolby for providing us with the IBM JDKs we required for our study! Thanks also to Oracle which supported us through a Collaborative Research Grant and to the DFG’s Priority Program 1496 Reliably Secure Software Systems who funded the work through its project INTERFLOW!
See you all at Vienna!
ASE Distinguished Reviewer Award
I just learned that apparently I was selected to receive the ASE Distinguished Reviewer Award. Thanks a lot to the ASE authors for their positive vote! And more thanks go also to my staff for assisting my reviews. Thanks a lot guys, we all share this award! It’s the second in a row, too!
Become a Post-Doc Researcher at Paderborn University!
We are still looking for one to two postdoctoral researchers to complement our research group at Paderborn university. For further information, please consult our previous announcement here. As stated, please direct your applications to se-jobs.cs@upb.de
If you have a deep interest in software engineering, especially software security, the I am very much looking forward to your application! In particular, I am interested in candidates with a proven track record (at least two papers at very reputable venues) in any of those subject areas:
- Static and/or dynamic program analysis
- Software Security
- Systems Security
- Applied (!) cryptography and/or cryptanalysis
Should we reject papers with bogus artifacts?
Yesterday I blogged about the accepted artifacts at ISSTA. I think it is worthwhile noting that out of the ten papers that got accepted and which had artifacts submitted there seven for which the artifacts checked out. That is a good thing!
What worries me, however, are the three papers for which Artifact evaluation failed. For those three papers, we were largely unable to reproduce their results, and yet the papers made it into the program. Moreover, for two of those three, the fact that they failed artifact evaluation was already known before the PC meeting, i.e., there would have been a chance to reject them.
The reason for why the PC did not is that only positive reviews were taken into account this time, in order not to discourage people from submitting artifacts in the future. We as a community should really think about whether we cannot find a way to make artifact evaluation the default so that people have no other chance than to submit all the evidence they have to back up their claims.
ICSE Distinguished Reviewer Award
I was very pleasantly surprised when I received the ICSE Distinguished Reviewer Award today, especially given that out of the 19 papers I reviewed only two were finally accepted. I guess there must also be a helpful way to reject papers after all. So thanks a lot to the ICSE authors for their positive vote! And more thanks go also to Alexandre Bartel, Mauro Baluda, Philipp Holzinger, Siegfried Rasthofer, Stephan Huber and Steven Arzt for assisting my reviews. Thanks a lot guys, we all share this award!