Associate Prof. in CS @UTwente | Security researcher | Hacker @shellphish | Proud Sicilian 🌋🍻

Joined December 2014
Andrea Continella retweeted
That's a wrap on DIMVA Conference in Chania! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who helped make #DIMVA2026 in Chania such a success. We’re happy to announce that DIMVA 2027 will be held in Enschede, Netherlands, hosted by the University of Twente 🇳🇱See you there!
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Andrea Continella retweeted
(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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📢 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
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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🚨 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
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
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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📢 We are looking for an Assistant Professor on Security in Twente: utwentecareers.nl/en/vacanci… Feel free to reach out for any questions!
Assistant Professor position in Cybersecurity dlvr.it/TLB1m0
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[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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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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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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📢 Postdoc Position on Formal Methods for Software Security Deadline: 24 Jan 2025
Postdoc Position in Formal Methods for Software Security dlvr.it/TGjxVg
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Andrea Continella retweeted
WE QUALIFIED FOR AIxCC FINALS!!!!
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#DIMVA24 @DIMVAConf was a blast! See you all next year 👋 The slides of my keynote are available at conand.me/presentations/DIMV…
#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
#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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📢 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
📢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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Looking forward to talking about firmware security at #DIMVA24! See you in Lausanne
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
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
📢🚨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…
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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