VB2006 Conference Programme

Day 1: Wednesday 11 October

Keynote addresses

• Case: Virus X Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure
• Data exfiltration techniques: how attackers steal your sensitive data Rob Murawski, CERT Coordination Center

Corporate stream

• The myth of user education Stefan Görling, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
• User education: teaching techniques and learning styles for damage limitation Peter Cooper, Sophos
• Rootkits: risks, issues and prevention Martin Overton, IBM Global Services
• Behavioural modelling of social engineering based malicious software Matthew Braverman, Microsoft

Technical stream

• Using expert systems for automated analysis systems: advantages and techniques Ryan Hicks, iCSA Labs
• Real-time multilanguage threat descriptions using an intelligent template system Oliver Auerbach, Cosmin Ancuta & Robert Harja, Avira
• AIM for bot coordination Lysa Myers, McAfee AVERT
• Malware in the UbiComp world Morton Swimmer, IBM Research GmbH

Day 2: Thursday 12 October

Corporate stream

• I know what you did last logon: keystroke logging, spyware and privacy Jeff Williams, Microsoft
• The (correct) detection of light grey software Roel Schouwenberg, Kaspersky Lab
• Targeted trojan attacks and industrial espionage Alex Shipp, MessageLabs
• The challenge of detecting and removing installed threats Jason Bruce, SophosLabs
• Dirty money on the wires: the business models of cyber criminals Guillaume Lovet, Fortinet
• The game goes on: an analysis of modern spam techniques Rob Thomas & Dmitry Samosseiko, SophosLabs
• Containing spam - the local challenge Jay Goldin, Amir Lev, Commtouch Software
• Spy-phishing - a new breed of blended threats Jamz Yaneza, Trend Micro
• Phishing trojan creation toolkits: an analysis of the technical capabilities and the criminal organizations behind them Dmitri Alperovitch, CipherTrust Inc.

Technical stream

• Full potential of dynamic binary translation for AV emulation engine Jim Wu, Internet Security Systems
• Anti-rootkit safeguards and methods of their bypassing Aleksander Czarnowski, AVET
• Botnet tracking techniques and tools Jose Nazario & Jeremy Linden, Arbor Networks
• Network-centric behavioural malware prevention: spyware and beyond? Richard Ford, Gerald Marin, William Allen & Jason Michalske, Florida Institute of Technology
• Scanning on the wire Dr Igor Muttik, McAfee AVERT
• Spam - recognition by methods independent from text content Ralf Iffert, Internet Security Systems
• Unattended spam filtering using machine learning: implementation, deployment and lessons John Graham-Cumming
• Ichthyological anatomy, or a study of phish Michael Morgan, IBM CERT A/NZ
• Exploiting spammers' tactics of obfuscations for better corporate level spam filtering Vipul Sharma & Steve Lewis, Proofpoint Inc.

Panel discussion

• Panel discussion: Anti-Spyware Coalition - working together to combat spyware Chaired by Richard Baldry, Sophos

Day 3: Friday 13 October

Corporate stream

• Applying collaborative anti-spam techniques to anti-virus Adam J. O'Donnell & Vipul Ved Prakash, Cloudmark Inc.
• The inspector: automating the forensic investigation of infected computers John Morris & Eric Kedrosky, Nortel
• Can strong authentication sort out phishing and fraud? Paul Ducklin, Sophos
• Early fraud detection using a hybrid of messaging reputation and web activity Phyllis Schneck, CipherTrust Inc.
• Everything I needed to know about computer security I learned from my dog and a country-western song Sarah Gordon, Symantec
• Microsoft Antivirus - extortion, expedience or the extinction of the AV industry? Randy Abrams, ESET
• The Common Malware Enumeration Initiative Desiree Beck & Julie Connolly, The MITRE Corporation

Technical stream

• Evolving shell code Masaki Suenega, Symantec Security Response
• Analysis and replication of Unix malware Patrick L. Knight, Authentium
• Loathing Lupper in Linux Jakub Kaminski, CA
• Macintosh OSX binary malware Marius van Oers, McAfee AVERT
• SymbOS malware classification problems Dr Vesselin Bontchev, FRISK Software International
• A deep look into Symbian threats Robert X. Wang, Symantec
• Me code write good - the l33t skillz of the virus writer John Canavan, Symantec

Panel discussion

• Panel discussion: Fighting cybercrime: one size does NOT fit all! 'The Internet Strike Force' led by David Perry, Trend Micro

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