VB2006 Montreal - slides
The following are the presentation slides shown by speakers at the VB2006 conference in Montreal. 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.
Keynotes
- Mikko Hypponen ('Case: Virus X')
Corporate stream
- Peter Cooper ('User education: teaching techniques and learning styles for damage limitation')
- Martin Overton ('Rootkits: risks, issues and prevention')
- Alex Shipp ('Targeted trojan attacks and industrial espionage')
- Ross Thomas and Dmitry Samosseiko ('The game goes on: an analysis of modern spam techniques')
- John Morris and Eric Kedrosky ('The inspector: automating the forensic investigation of infected computers')
- Randy Abrams ('Microsoft Anti-Virus - extortion, expedience, or the extinction of the AV industry?')
Technical stream
- Lysa Myers ('AIM for bot coordination')
- Jim Wu ('Full potential of dynamic binary translation for AV emulation engine')
- Jose Nazario and Jeremy Linden ('Botnet tracking techniques and tools')
- Ralf Iffert ('Spam recognition by methods independent from text content')
- Michael Morgan ('Ichthyological anatomy, or a study of phish')
- Vipul Sharma and Steve Lewis ('Exploiting spammers' techniques of obfuscations for better corporate level spam filtering')
- Patrick Knight ('Analysis and replication of Unix malware')
- Marius van Oers ('Macintosh OSX binary malware')
- Vesselin Bontchev ('SymbOS malware classification problems')
- Robert Wang ('A deep look into Symbian threats')
- John Canavan ('Me code write good - the l33t skillz of the virus writer')
Panel session
- Internet Strike Force ('Panel: Fighting cybercrime: one size does not fit all!')
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