[Soups-announce] WEIS 2026 in Berkeley (June 2-3)

[Serge Egelman]

Of likely interest to folks on this list:

Registration for WEIS 2026 in Berkeley is now open and the program is
online:

https://weis2026.econinfosec.org/program/


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The 25th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2026)

University of California, Berkeley, June 2–3, 2026


The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading
forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and
privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science,
business, law, policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored
the role of incentives between attackers and defenders of information
systems, examined human behavior surrounding security decision-making,
identified market failures surrounding Internet security, quantified risks
of personal data disclosure, and assessed investments in cyber-defense.
WEIS 2026 will build on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools not
only to understand threats, but also to strengthen security and privacy
through novel evaluations of available solutions.


WEIS 2026 is a hybrid event! For those unwilling or unable to attend in
person, registration for online participation is possible!


Early registration for WEIS 2026 ends on May
15th! Registration information—both for online and in-person
participation—and other details can be found here:


https://weis2026.econinfosec.org/travel-registration/



We have an exciting list of accepted papers (which will be posted online in
the coming weeks):



   - *Time Will Tell: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Evolution of Security
   and Privacy of Three IoT Device Types*
   Swaathi Vetrivel, Michel van Eeten, and Carlos Gañán
   - *Defending Against Intelligent Attackers at Large Scales*
   Andrew Lohn
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*Cybersecurity and Market Share in Digital Ecosystems with Network
   Externalities *Daniel Arce
   - *Ransomware Insurance and Strategic Ransom Demand*
   Manos Perdikakis
   - *Disentangling the Sources of Cyber Risk Premia*
   Loïc Maréchal and Nathan Monnet
   - *“I’m the mess that you wanted”: Evaluating the Accuracy of WHOIS
   Asset Discovery Against Self-Reported Data*
   Yana Angelova, Aksel Ethembabaoglu, Rolf van Wegberg, Carlos Gañán, and
   Michel van Eeten
   - *Domijn: The Security of Domain Registrars and the Risk of a Domain
   Name Takeover*
   Koen van Hove, Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos, and Roland van Rijswijk-Deij
   - *Endogenous Liquidity Constraints on Consensus Attacks: A
   Game-Theoretic Analysis with Agent-Based Validation*
   Ke Wang, Wenbin Wu, and Alexander Neumueller
   - *Stand-Alone Complex or Vibercrime? Exploring the Adoption and
   Innovation of GenAI Tools, Coding Assistants, and Agents within Cybercrime
   Ecosystems*
   Jack Hughes, Ben Collier, and Daniel Thomas
   - *How Do Cyber Attacks Impact Corporate Balance Sheets and Income
   Statements? An Empirical Study*
   Teyyub Mutallimov, Dana Itzhaki, and Tyler Moore
   - *The Impact of Cyber Attacks on Security Investment: Evidence from
   Firm-Level Panel Data*
   Abulfaz Hajizada, Dana Etgar Itzhaki, Noa Barnir, Tyler Moore, and Neil
   Gandal
   - *Privacy Agents in the Field*
   Aileen Nielsen and Yafit Lev-Aretz
   - *Analyzing Investment Incentives under METI’s New Rating System via a
   Stepwise Extension of the Gordon-Loeb Model*
   Ryoma Kanai and Kanta Matsuura
   - *Who Wants Privacy Anyway? Comparative Evidence on CBDC Design
   Preference*
   Vagisha Srivastava
   - *Cybercrime and Prevention: Colonel Blotto in Social Engineering*
   Gergely Benkő, Katalin Parti, and Gergely Biczók
   - *“People were not happy when admitting mistakes”: Evolving Past
   Defensiveness in Running Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Programs*
   Sandra Rivera Pérez, Amy Tjin Tjoen Jin, Michel van Eeten, and Carlos
   Gañán
   - *The Emergence of Public Key Infrastructures: Changing Authority
   Structures and the Automation of Trust in Cyberspace*
   Milton Mueller
   - *Estimating the Social Cost of Corporate Data Breaches*
   Lina Alkarmi, Armin Sarabi, and Mingyan Liu
   - *Privacy Interventions and Publishers’ Revenues: Evidence on Long-Run
   Effects and Ad-Traffic Heterogeneity*
   Tobias Kircher, Riley Grossman, Mike Smith, Alessandro Acquisti,
   Cristian Borcea, Yi Chen, and Cristobal Cheyre
   -
*Cybersecurity Ratings to Support Domain-Specific Financial Decisions:
   Applications to National Infrastructures, Cyberinsurance, Gordon-Loeb
   Model, and NPV Analysis *William Yurcik, Gregory Pluta, and Fábio Miranda


The full program can be found here:
https://weis2026.econinfosec.org/program/

We look forward to seeing you in Berkeley!
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/*
Serge Egelman, Ph.D.
Research Director, Usable Security & Privacy
International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)

Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
University of California, Berkeley
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