Ivan Lozano
Ivan Lozano
@ivanlozano.bsky.social
Information security engineer. #Android #rust #memory-safety. Opinions are my own.
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The NYT just published an article largely hyping internet voting in Alaska.

I do not agree, and argue that the article has significant problems. Let’s look at a few of them 🧵

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Will People Trust Voting by Phone? Alaska Is Going to Find Out.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Hackceler8 live stream will start on 2025-10-04 21:15 UTC / 14:15 PST

Schedule (PST)
14:15 - Live stream start
14:30 - Semifinals #1
16:30 - Semifinals #2
18:30 - Finals

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1W...
Hackceler8 2025
YouTube video by Hackceler8
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October 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags.

You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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GUIFuzz++ is the first general-purpose fuzzer for desktop GUI software! Fuzzing by translating AFL++ random input into user interaction with GUIs, leading to the discovery of 23 new bugs!

Paper: futures.cs.utah.edu/papers/25ASE.pdf
Source: github.com/FuturesLab/GUIFuzzPlusPlus

Go test some GUIs!
September 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Some good news:

Yesterday, FDA granted accelerated approval for elamipretide, the drug my niece relies on for treatment of her rare disease.

This was the result of tireless advocacy by patients, caregivers, and allies.

THANK YOU to everyone who shared Hope’s story. I truly believe it helped.
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.

She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.

But the FDA recently denied its approval.

Now, her health hangs in the balance.

Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
September 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Great write up on this from @lhn.bsky.social here! www.wired.com/story/apple-...
September 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Oh look, the iOS vulnerability is yet another weird subcase of image decompression, who could possibly have predicted.
August 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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@blackhoodie.bsky.social will be at @sec-t.bsky.social on September 10th with a training on Linux Malware Reverse Engineering, for women by women! We have very few seats left 😁 blackhoodie.re/SecT2025/
August 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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At USENIX Security? Then check out:

Studying the Use of CVEs in Academia, won distinguished paper award www.usenix.org/conference/u...

Discovering and Exploiting Vulnerable Tunnelling Hosts, won most innovative research Pwnie @ DEFCON www.usenix.org/conference/u...

Big thanks to all co-authors!!
August 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Quote of the day: "Nicely done. It doesn’t undo all the (often rightly deserved) bad press that AI agents have received lately, but good news is good news."

www.vice.com/en/article/g...

#BigSleep #VulnResearch
Google's 'Big Sleep' Just Became the First-Ever AI to Prevent a Cyberattack
Google's Big Sleep is just a year old, and for the first time it as able to detect and help close a vulnerability at risk of being exploited.
www.vice.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.

She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.

But the FDA recently denied its approval.

Now, her health hangs in the balance.

Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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It has been genuinely moving — moved me to tears, actually — to see so much support for our work at @lawfaremedia.org.

Since yesterday, 3 additional donors have agreed to match contributions up to 5K each — thank you @judgeluttig.bsky.social for helping us get there! givebutter.com/journalism/a...
April 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This is wonderful, but they are still far short of their goal. Please share and donate if you can. We need Lawfare more than ever.
It has been genuinely moving — moved me to tears, actually — to see so much support for our work at @lawfaremedia.org.

Since yesterday, 3 additional donors have agreed to match contributions up to 5K each — thank you @judgeluttig.bsky.social for helping us get there! givebutter.com/journalism/a...
April 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM