Fighting malware and spam
VB2008 conference programme
Wednesday 1 October
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
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| 08:00 | Registration | ||
| 10:00 | Tea and coffee | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Opening address | ||
| 11:00 - 11:40 |
Keynote address: The AV industry: Quo Vadis? Alex Eckelberry, Sunbelt Software |
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| 11:40 - 12:20 |
The malware business
David Emm, Kaspersky Lab |
Towards integrated malware defence
Morton Swimmer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
Stormy Weather: a quantitative assessment of the Storm web threat in 2007
Raimund Genes, Anthony Arrott and David Sancho, Trend Micro |
Your computer is now stoned (...again!). The rise of MBR rootkits
Kimmo Kasslin, F-Secure Elia Florio, Symantec |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
Intentions of capitalistic malware
Gunter Ollmann, Holly Stewart, IBM |
When the hammer falls - effects of successful widespread disinfection on malware development and direction
Matt McCormack, Microsoft |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Affiliate web-based malware
Paul Baccas, Sophos |
Applying user-mode memory scanning on Windows NT
Eric Uday Kumar, Authentium |
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| 16:20 - 17:00 |
Life beyond outbreaks - marketing in today's threat environment
Jeff Aboud, In-Focus Marketing |
Packer visualisation: a fast entropy scanning algorithm that preserves local detail
Tim Ebringer, University of Melbourne Li Sun, RMIT University |
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| 17:00 - 19:00 | Sponsor presentations |
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| 19.30 | Welcome drinks reception | ||
Thursday 2 October
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | |||
| 09:00 - 09:40 |
How secure is your virtualized network?
Joshua Corman, IBM |
Graph, entropy and grid computing: automatic comparison of malware
Ismael Briones Vilar, PandaLabs |
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| 09:40 - 10:20 |
Network access control technologies
Benjamin Czarny, OPSWAT |
Taxonomy of web-based malware - finding rules for heuristic detection
Fraser Howard and Vanja Svajcer, Sophos |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
Here comes the flood/end of the pattern file
David Perry, Trend Micro |
The robustness of new email identification standards
Patrik Ostrihon, COMDOM Software Reza Rajabiun, COMDOM Software and York University |
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| 11:20 - 12:00 |
VCC - Virus Control Center: a home-grown helpdesk application to efficiently handle the never-ending flood of malware
Oliver Auerbach, Cosmin Ancuta and Robert Harja, Avira |
Coordinated distributions method for tracking botnets sending out spam
Andrey Bakhmutov, Kaspersky Lab |
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| 12:00 - 12:40 |
Mapping and understanding extinction patterns for viruses and worms over 15 years
Joe Wells, Lavasoft |
Malware forensics: detecting the unknown
Martin Overton, IBM |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
Non-English spam: a case study
Vipul Sharma, Yanyan Yang and Jason Wallace, Proofpoint |
Last-minute presentations:
14:00 - 14:20 VB testing - present status, future plans, John Hawes, Virus Bulletin 14:20 - 14:40 Race to zero with online scanners, Boris Lau, Sophos |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
Russian spammers: the view from Russia
Darya Gudkova, Kaspersky Lab |
Last-minute presentations:
14:40 - 15:00 There is (some) honour among South American authors of infostealer trojans!, Pedro Bueno, McAfee 15:00 - 15:20 Apple iPhone programming with SDK, Marius van Oers, McAfee |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
The NorTel Mailer: effective open-source spam filtering for enterprises
Chris Lewis and Thomas Choi, Nortel |
Last-minute presentations:
15:40 - 16:00 P0wn the cloud. The good, the bad, and the pugly of cloud computing, Dan Hubbard, Websense 16:00 - 16:20 Recent rogueware, Kurt Baumgartner, PC Tools |
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| 16:20 - 17:00 |
SCADA security - who is really in control of our control systems?
Peter Allor, IBM |
Last-minute presentations:
16:20 - 16:40 URLCheck: malware and phishing URL aggregator, Sorin Mustaca, Avira 16:40 - 17:00 Last-minute malicious packer dissected, Nicolas Brulez, Websense |
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| 17:00 - 17:40 |
Panel discussion: The state of anti-malware testing chaired by Stuart Taylor, Sophos |
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| 19:30 | Pre-dinner drinks followed by gala dinner & cabaret | ||
Friday 3 October
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | |||
| 09:40 - 10:20 |
Understanding and teaching bots and botnets
Randy Abrams, ESET |
Game-theoretic framework to assess attack-resistance of an AV system
Bin Mai, Northwestern State University Anshuman Singh, Andrew Walenstein and Arun Lakhotia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
Who will test the testers?
David Harley and Andrew Lee, ESET |
Automatic rules-based binary analysis with IDA Pro and CLIPS
Ryan Hicks, AVG |
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| 11:20 - 12:00 |
Playing with shadows - exposing the black market for online game password theft
Chun Feng, Microsoft |
Rebuilding testing for the future
Igor Muttik and James Vignoles, McAfee |
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| 12:00 - 12:40 |
Report card on a network based anti-worm defence system
John Morris, Nortel |
Samples.malware.org: sample sharing for the next decade?
Richard Ford, Thomas Walsh and William Allen, Florida Institute of Technology |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
Where do your users want to go today and can you stop them?
Bruce Hughes, AVG |
Clean data profiling
Catherine Robinson, Julie Weber, Bartlomiej Uscilowski and Thomas Parsons, Symantec |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
The name of the dose: does malware naming still matter?
Pierre-Marc Bureau and David Harley, ESET |
Malware development life cycle
Raymond Roberts, Microsoft |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
A look at defence in depth
Kenneth Bechtel, Team Anti-Virus |
Darwin inside the machines: malware evolution and the consequences for computer security
Peter Ször, Symantec Dimitris Iliopoulos and C. Adami, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences |
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| 16:20 - 17:00 |
Security in banking forum Nick FitzGerald, Reza Rajabiun, Eric Davis, chaired by Jan Hruska |
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| 17:00 - 17:15 | Conference closing session | ||
Reserve papers
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Using throttling and traffic shaping to combat botnet spam
Ken Simpson, MailChannels |
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