Fighting malware and spam

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!')

Poll

Virus Bulletin

• The secret life of old malware
• VB100 August 2008 - Windows XP Service Pack 3
• The case for AV for Linux: Linux/Rst-B
• Improving heuristics
• ‘Yet another Rustock analysis ...’
• Evading CAPTCHA