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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(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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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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[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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Andrea Continella retweeted
WE QUALIFIED FOR AIxCC FINALS!!!!
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#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
📢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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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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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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Andrea Continella retweeted
RT please: if you know someone holding a dependent US visa (H4, O3) who was able to get admitted to cross US border WITHOUT the main visa holder present (or in the US territory) please DM me or reply to this Tweet.
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Andrea Continella retweeted
📢 After 7yrs of @tudelft, I'm thrilled to join the SCS group at @UTwente as assistant professor from Jan '24! 🥳💪 (Also #hiring a #PhD student to work on #XAI for #incident #response). Details to follow, but if you know any promising candidates, pls send them my way 🙏
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Replying to @_conand
@_conand giving the keynote at @ACCSS_NL Cyber Security Next Generation inspiring security specialists of tomorrow. #CVD is hosting us. @ZekiErkin @turkmenf
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Interested in a paid #HexHive internship to work on challenging security problems next summer? Summer@EPFL is open for applications until Dec03. Apply now, RT, and, for my faculty friends, please share with your BSc/MSc students! summer.epfl.ch/
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