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COSIC provides a broad expertise in digital security and strives for innovative security solutions.
COSIC is headed by Bart Preneel.

Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group
https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/

"The Battle Over Chat Control: How EU Governments and the Tech Lobby Are Trying to Overturn Parliament’s Vote — A Comprehensive Fact Check" by Patrick Breyer https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-battle-over-chat-control-how-eu-governments-and-the-tech-lobby-are-trying-to-overturn-parliaments-vote-a-comprehensive-fact-check/
The Battle Over Chat Control: How EU Governments and the Tech Lobby Are Trying to Overturn Parliament's Vote — A Comprehensive Fact Check

This week, the European Parliament faces a decisive vote on whether the indiscriminate scanning of private chats and emails by US tech companies (Chat Control 1.0) will be allowed to continue. After Parliament voted on 11 March to replace blanket mass surveillance with targeted monitoring of suspect

Patrick Breyer
“Natural collisions in Apple’s NeuralHash & Microsoft’s #PhotoDNA show worrying false positives/negatives in widely deployed perceptual hashing” by Alec Muffett https://alecmuffett.com/article/151208
“Natural collisions in Apple’s NeuralHash & Microsoft’s PhotoDNA show worrying false positives/negatives in widely deployed perceptual hashing”

At Facebook 2013-16 it was a discreet secret within parts of the Trust & Safety team that PhotoDNA “had problems with collisions but we are not allowed to talk about them” – d…

Dropsafe
CEPIS Calls on EU Institutions to Uphold Parliament’s Decision and Reject Mass Surveillance in the Chat Control Regulation: https://cepis.org/cepis-calls-to-oppose-chat-control-vote/
CEPIS Calls on EU Institutions to Uphold Parliament’s Decision and Reject Mass Surveillance in the Chat Control Regulation - CEPIS

CEPIS urges Members of the European Parliament to firmly defend the Parliament’s recent democratic decision to end untargeted mass scanning of private digital communications. CEPIS reiterates its strong opposition to the indiscriminate surveillance measures.

CEPIS
🎥The COSIC Seminar on "Bridges to Self: Silent Web-to-App Tracking on Mobile via Localhost" by Tim Vlummens (COSIC) is now online on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4WntJ0TYSE
#tracking #privacy
COSIC Seminar "Bridges to Self: Silent Web-to-App Tracking on Mobile via..." (Tim Vlummens, COSIC)

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COSIC Professor Nigel Smart wins #RSAC 2026 Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics!
https://www.rsaconference.com/library/press-release/rsac-set-to-honor-mathematics-awards
🚨 COSIC research exposes 4 critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s #PhotoDNA, risking undetected illegal content, data leaks, and false accusations.
🔗 https://next.ink/230234/le-logiciel-photodna-de-detection-des-contenus-pedosexuels-peut-incriminer-des-innocents/
Le logiciel PhotoDNA de détection des contenus pédosexuels peut incriminer des innocents - Next

New cybersecurity bites blog post "Vibe coding: beveiligingsrisico’s bij AI-gedreven softwareontwikkeling": https://cybersecurity-bites.be/technologie/vibe-coding-beveiligingsrisicos-bij-ai-gedreven-softwareontwikkeling/
✈️ Hello from San Francisco! KU Leuven Security & Privacy at #RSAC2026:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7442148807275937792
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Bart Preneel will be speaking at #SecAppDev 2026 in Leuven in June:
https://secappdev.org/
SecAppDev 2026

SecAppDev is an intensive one-week course in secure application development. In-depth lectures and hands-on workshops take you on a deep-dive in today's security best practices.

SecAppDev

The paper on the security analysis of Google Fast Pair has been accepted at IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2026. It presents the first in-the-wild security analysis of Fast Pair and uncovers systemic ecosystem-wide failures.

#whisperpair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

https://whisperpair.eu/

WhisperPair: Hijacking Bluetooth Accessories Using Google Fast Pair

WhisperPair is a family of practical attacks leveraging a flaw in the Google Fast Pair implementation on flagship audio accessories.