Fighting malware and spam

VB2005 Dublin - slides

The following are the presentation slides shown by speakers at the VB2005 conference in Dublin. We are still waiting for some of the slides to be supplied to us - these will be added in due course. The slides are arranged in chronological order of the presentations.

Corporate/Spam stream

• Martin Overton ('Bots and botnets - risks, issues and prevention')
• Michael Thacker ('Effective security policy management')
• Greg Day ('A practical understanding of malware security')
• Eddy Willems ('Teach your children well' (part one))
• David Harley ('Teach your children well' (part two))
• Steen Pedersen ('The self-defending network a resilient network')
• Earl Greer & Vincil Bishop ('Implementing an enterprise AV and AS strategy')
• Stephen Posniak (Combined hardware/software solutions to malware and spam control')
• Oren Drori ('Commercial and non-commercial approaches to fighting spam')
• Dmitri Alperovitch ('Mapping the email universe')
• Jamz Yaneza ('Best practices for evaluating anti-spam solutions')
• Vesselin Bontchev ('The current status of the CARO Malware Naming Scheme')
• Jason Bruce ('Defining rules for acceptable adware')
• Joe Telafici & Seth Purdy ('The twisted family tree of the transponder gang')
• David Perry ('The strange case of Judith C.')
• Karou Hayashi ('Threats and risks to mobile phones in Japan')
• Matthew Braverman ('Win32/Blaster: a case study from Microsoft's perspective')
• Lucijan Caric ('VF-ATAK - virus flood attack on desktop anti-virus programs')
• Andreas Marx ('Insecurity in security software')

Technical/Spam stream

• Igor Muttik ('Manipulating the Internet')
• Jarno Niemelä ('What makes Symbian malware tick')
• Nicolas Brulez ('Executable encryption for Pocket PC and Smartphone devices')
• Costin Raiu ('Enhanced virus protection')
• Kimmo Kasslin ('Hide n seek revisited - full stealth is back')
• Dmitry Samosseiko ('Genotype spam detection')
• Nick FitzGerald ('Why 'user authentication' is a bad idea)
• John Graham-Cumming ('Pseudo-words for spam filtering in an unmodified Naive Bayesïan text classifier')
• Tobias Graf ('Generic unpacking - how to handle modified or unknown PE compression engines')

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Virus Bulletin

• The cost of online anonymity
• Whither the Harumf?
• The hidden cost of compromise
• Broadly speaking: skill diversification in the AV community
• VB100 October 2008 - Windows Server 2008
• The problem of backscatter – part 2