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Congrats to Go co-creator Rob Pike on receiving the 2026 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame)! 🔥
Rob’s impact spans Go, UTF-8, Plan 9, & Unix programming classics.
📺 Watch acceptance speech: youtu.be/wSXATB0H1DY
📖 USENIX citation: www.usenix.org/about/awards...
Rob’s impact spans Go, UTF-8, Plan 9, & Unix programming classics.
📺 Watch acceptance speech: youtu.be/wSXATB0H1DY
📖 USENIX citation: www.usenix.org/about/awards...
Acceptance video for the 2026 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (the "Flame")
YouTube video by Rob Pike
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August 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Congrats to Go co-creator Rob Pike on receiving the 2026 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame)! 🔥
Rob’s impact spans Go, UTF-8, Plan 9, & Unix programming classics.
📺 Watch acceptance speech: youtu.be/wSXATB0H1DY
📖 USENIX citation: www.usenix.org/about/awards...
Rob’s impact spans Go, UTF-8, Plan 9, & Unix programming classics.
📺 Watch acceptance speech: youtu.be/wSXATB0H1DY
📖 USENIX citation: www.usenix.org/about/awards...
Much needed updates.
1. Hemlock was presented at CCS in Oct. We are working on releasing a usable tool in coming weeks.
2. Our next paper is peer-reviewed & accepted by USENIX Security 2026. It is a Model Provenance tool that computes "feature fingerprints" from genAI image models.
1. Hemlock was presented at CCS in Oct. We are working on releasing a usable tool in coming weeks.
2. Our next paper is peer-reviewed & accepted by USENIX Security 2026. It is a Model Provenance tool that computes "feature fingerprints" from genAI image models.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Much needed updates.
1. Hemlock was presented at CCS in Oct. We are working on releasing a usable tool in coming weeks.
2. Our next paper is peer-reviewed & accepted by USENIX Security 2026. It is a Model Provenance tool that computes "feature fingerprints" from genAI image models.
1. Hemlock was presented at CCS in Oct. We are working on releasing a usable tool in coming weeks.
2. Our next paper is peer-reviewed & accepted by USENIX Security 2026. It is a Model Provenance tool that computes "feature fingerprints" from genAI image models.
Talks from the USENIX Security 2025 security conference, which took place in August, are now available on YouTube
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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USENIX Security '25 (Paper Presentations) - YouTube
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November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Talks from the USENIX Security 2025 security conference, which took place in August, are now available on YouTube
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Enigma will be back as a track at USENIX Security: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/enigma-cfp
USENIX Security '25 Enigma Track Call for Participation
Submissions due: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Notification to submitters: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Enigma will be back as a track at USENIX Security: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/enigma-cfp
I can’t believe this was in 2018. Mickens is truly a prophet youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k?...
USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
YouTube video by USENIX
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September 24, 2026 at 12:03 AM
I can’t believe this was in 2018. Mickens is truly a prophet youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k?...
July 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Page-Oriented Programming exploitation technique (USENIX Security)
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#infosec #usenix
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December 22, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Page-Oriented Programming exploitation technique (USENIX Security)
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#infosec #usenix
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#infosec #usenix
First, news on robustness for Glaze and Nightshade. A new paper is coming out in a month at USENIX Security, which describes a new approach to detect images altered with tools like Glaze and Nightshade. The paper shows strong results detecting protected images, and includes some results on removal.
July 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
First, news on robustness for Glaze and Nightshade. A new paper is coming out in a month at USENIX Security, which describes a new approach to detect images altered with tools like Glaze and Nightshade. The paper shows strong results detecting protected images, and includes some results on removal.
Something I'll always remember, in the early days of the web, I was at a usenix birds-of-a-feather meetup at xerox parc where a unix guy held up a copy of Vogue and said it was important to start learning about layout.
June 14, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Something I'll always remember, in the early days of the web, I was at a usenix birds-of-a-feather meetup at xerox parc where a unix guy held up a copy of Vogue and said it was important to start learning about layout.
The paper:
Identifying Provenance of Generative Text-to-Image Models.
Anna Yoo-Jeong Ha, Wenxin Ding, Stanley Wu, Shawn Shan, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
To Appear: Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium,
Baltimore MD, August 2026.
We're working on camera-ready version. Will post here when done.
Identifying Provenance of Generative Text-to-Image Models.
Anna Yoo-Jeong Ha, Wenxin Ding, Stanley Wu, Shawn Shan, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
To Appear: Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium,
Baltimore MD, August 2026.
We're working on camera-ready version. Will post here when done.
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The paper:
Identifying Provenance of Generative Text-to-Image Models.
Anna Yoo-Jeong Ha, Wenxin Ding, Stanley Wu, Shawn Shan, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
To Appear: Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium,
Baltimore MD, August 2026.
We're working on camera-ready version. Will post here when done.
Identifying Provenance of Generative Text-to-Image Models.
Anna Yoo-Jeong Ha, Wenxin Ding, Stanley Wu, Shawn Shan, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
To Appear: Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium,
Baltimore MD, August 2026.
We're working on camera-ready version. Will post here when done.
I don't want to tempt the evil eye or anything, but this paper I'm reviewing for USENIX Security looks amazing. In the good way.
April 8, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I don't want to tempt the evil eye or anything, but this paper I'm reviewing for USENIX Security looks amazing. In the good way.
Our USENIX ;login; article on Crescendo just dropped! We discovered what might be the most powerful blackbox jailbreak technique - Crescendo is undefeated against all frontier AI models in every harm domain we tested. I'm presenting at USENIX Security on August 14th.
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www.usenix.org/publications...
July 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Our USENIX ;login; article on Crescendo just dropped! We discovered what might be the most powerful blackbox jailbreak technique - Crescendo is undefeated against all frontier AI models in every harm domain we tested. I'm presenting at USENIX Security on August 14th.
www.usenix.org/publications...
www.usenix.org/publications...
July 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Found my original USENIX membership card while cleaning up some old files. My 30th anniversary of joining is next July!
January 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Found my original USENIX membership card while cleaning up some old files. My 30th anniversary of joining is next July!
Wow! My 2nd son's very first research paper received the Internet Defense Prize award at the USENIX Security conference. He has fixed issues and improved MLS, the Messaging Layer Security protocol. I'm deeply impressed! https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-announces-winners-2023-internet-defense-prize
USENIX Announces the Winners of the 2023 Internet Defense Prize | USENIX
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August 10, 2023 at 6:09 AM
Wow! My 2nd son's very first research paper received the Internet Defense Prize award at the USENIX Security conference. He has fixed issues and improved MLS, the Messaging Layer Security protocol. I'm deeply impressed! https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-announces-winners-2023-internet-defense-prize
This is the talk -- it'll be available online soon because USENIX is open access
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www.usenix.org/conference/u...
Risk Is Not a Hammer, and Most Hazards Aren't Nails | USENIX
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August 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is the talk -- it'll be available online soon because USENIX is open access
www.usenix.org/conference/u...
www.usenix.org/conference/u...
The rumors are true! I’ll be talking about vulnerability disclosure and NDAs at USENIX Enigma on Wednesday!
Saving the very best for last IMO, for our final USENIX Enigma preview, we have "Everything Old Is New Again: Legal Restrictions on Vulnerability Disclosure on Bug Bounty Platforms" from Kendra Albert of Albert Sellars LLP. 1/3
August 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The rumors are true! I’ll be talking about vulnerability disclosure and NDAs at USENIX Enigma on Wednesday!
This stupid computer -
I wish that they would sell it;
It never does what I want,
But only what I tell it.
(A ditty from long ago Usenix days.)
I wish that they would sell it;
It never does what I want,
But only what I tell it.
(A ditty from long ago Usenix days.)
July 20, 2024 at 11:52 PM
This stupid computer -
I wish that they would sell it;
It never does what I want,
But only what I tell it.
(A ditty from long ago Usenix days.)
I wish that they would sell it;
It never does what I want,
But only what I tell it.
(A ditty from long ago Usenix days.)
Sad to see USENIX ATC to discontinue after this year despite the growing submissions, but understandable. It's interesting that young gens will see ATC in a way I see other historical confs like USITS and Mach Symposium.
www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-...
www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-...
USENIX ATC Announcement | USENIX
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May 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Sad to see USENIX ATC to discontinue after this year despite the growing submissions, but understandable. It's interesting that young gens will see ATC in a way I see other historical confs like USITS and Mach Symposium.
www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-...
www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-...
sometimes life is beautiful www.mckusick.com/beastie/shir...
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
sometimes life is beautiful www.mckusick.com/beastie/shir...
The end of an era, Usenix announces this July will be its final annual conference. https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-atc-announcement
USENIX ATC Announcement | USENIX
www.usenix.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The end of an era, Usenix announces this July will be its final annual conference. https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-atc-announcement
Our paper on efficient automated exploit generation has been accepted to USENIX Security '25.
The gist: instead of generating individual attacks, we synthesise the whole *programming language* that expresses many exploits and guarantees their realisability.
Paper: ilyasergey.net/assets/pdf/p...
The gist: instead of generating individual attacks, we synthesise the whole *programming language* that expresses many exploits and guarantees their realisability.
Paper: ilyasergey.net/assets/pdf/p...
February 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Our paper on efficient automated exploit generation has been accepted to USENIX Security '25.
The gist: instead of generating individual attacks, we synthesise the whole *programming language* that expresses many exploits and guarantees their realisability.
Paper: ilyasergey.net/assets/pdf/p...
The gist: instead of generating individual attacks, we synthesise the whole *programming language* that expresses many exploits and guarantees their realisability.
Paper: ilyasergey.net/assets/pdf/p...
Usenix ugh. Typo.
Anyway here’s the prize if curious:
www.usenix.org/conference/u...
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Anyway here’s the prize if curious:
www.usenix.org/conference/u...
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November 27, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Usenix ugh. Typo.
Anyway here’s the prize if curious:
www.usenix.org/conference/u...
bsky.app/profile/kort...
Anyway here’s the prize if curious:
www.usenix.org/conference/u...
bsky.app/profile/kort...