Fighting malware and spam
VB2005 conference programme
Wednesday 5 October
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 - 12:50 | Sponsor presentations | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Opening address | ||
| 14:30 - 15:10 |
Bots and botnets – risks, issues and prevention
Martin Overton, IBM Global Services |
Manipulating the Internet
Dr Igor Muttik, McAfee AVERT |
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| 15:10 - 15:50 |
Anonymous and Malicious
John Aycock, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary Andreas Hirt, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary |
Desktop search: a new platform for malware scanning?
Andy Payne, WholeSecurity, Inc. Oliver Schmelzle, WholeSecurity, Inc. |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 16:20 - 17:00 |
Effective security policy management
Michael D. Thacker, IBM Virus CERT |
Tracing execution paths
Maksym Schipka, MessageLabs |
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| 17:00 - 17:40 |
Malware in popular networks
Dmitry Gryaznov, McAfee AVERT |
Defeating polymorphism: beyond emulation
Adrian E. Stepan, Microsoft |
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| 19.00 | Drinks reception | ||
Thursday 6 October
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | |||
| 09:00 - 09:40 |
A practical understanding of malware security
Greg Day, McAfee |
Solving the Bagle jigsaw
Scott Molenkamp, Computer Associates Hamish O’Dea, Computer Associates |
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| 09:40 - 10:20 |
Teach your children well
David Harley, NHS Connecting for Health/independent researcher Eddy Willems, NOXS and EICAR Judith Harley, Bohunt Community School, UK |
The evolution of IRC bots
John Canavan, Symantec Security Response |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
The self-defending network a resilient network
Steen Pedersen, Ementor |
What makes Symbian malware tick
Jarno Niemelä, F-Secure |
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| 11:20 - 12:00 |
Implementing an enterprise anti-virus and anti-spam strategy, adventures in the real world
Earl Greer, PeoplesInformation.com Vincil Bishop, PeoplesInformation.com |
Reverse engineering and Java viral analysis
Daniel Reynaud-Plantey, Army Signals Academy, Virology and Cryptology Laboratory, Rennes, France & Ecoles de Coëtquidan, Ecole Spéciale Militaire, Guer, France |
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| 12:00 - 12:40 |
Combined hardware/software solutions to malware and spam control
Steve Posniak, Office of Information Technology, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Executable encryption for Pocket PC and SmartPhone devices
Nicolas Brulez, Websense Security Labs |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
2004 – 2005: commercial and non-commercial attempts to fight spam
Oren Drori, CommTouch |
Enhanced virus protection
Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Lab |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
Mapping the email universe
Paul Judge, CipherTrust Dmitri Alperovitch, CipherTrust |
DEeP Protection or a Bit of a NiX? A closer look at Microsoft’s new memory protection offerings
Charles Renert, Determina |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Best practices for evaluating anti-spam solutions
Nathan Turajski, Trend Micro |
Hide 'n seek revisited – full stealth is back
Kimmo Kasslin, F-Secure Corporation |
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| 16:20 - 17:00 |
Dying for information in the information age Chair: Gaby Dowling, Sullivan & Cromwell |
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| 19:30 | Pre-dinner drinks followed by gala dinner & cabaret | ||
Friday 7 October
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | |||
| 09:40 - 10:20 |
Current status of the CARO malware naming scheme
Dr Vesselin Bontchev, FRISK Software International |
Genotype spam detection
Dmitry Samosseiko, SophosLabs |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
Defining rules for acceptable adware
Jason Bruce, SophosLabs |
Why ‘user authentication’ is a bad idea
Nick FitzGerald, Computer Virus Consulting |
|
| 11:20 - 12:00 |
The twisted family tree of the Transponder Gang
Joe Telafici, McAfee AVERT Seth Purdy, McAfee AVERT |
Pseudo-words for spam detection in an unmodified Naive Bayesian Text Classifier
John Graham-Cumming , POPFile Project |
|
| 12:00 - 12:40 |
The strange case of Judith C.
David Perry, Trend Micro |
Legislation & technology: a coordinated approach toward achieving effective anti-spam law enforcement
Matthew Prince, Unspam LLC & John Marshall Law School |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
Threats and risks to mobile phones in Japan
Kaoru Hayashi, Symantec Security Response |
Generic unpacking – how to handle modified or unknown PE compression engines?
Tobias Graf, Ewido Networks |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
Win32/Blaster: a case study from Microsoft’s perspective
Matthew Braverman, Microsoft |
Towards agile reverse engineering
Frederic Perriot, Symantec |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
VF-Atak (Virus Flood Attack on desktop anti-virus programs)
Lucijan Caric, Qubis Tomo Sombolac, Qubis |
Techniques of adware and spyware
Eric Chien, Symantec |
|
| 16:20 - 17:00 |
Insecurity in security software
Andreas Marx, AV-Test.org Maik Morgenstern, AV-Test.org Mary Landesman, About.com |
A behavioural analysis of information-stealing malware
Matthew Williamson, Sana Security Inc. |
|
| 17:00 - 17:50 |
Who is hiding the virus writers? Chair: David Perry, Trend Micro |
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| 17:50 - 18:00 | Conference closing session | ||
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