VB2007 conference programme

Wednesday 19 September

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
08:00	Registration
10:00	Tea and coffee
10:30 - 11:00	Opening address
11:00 - 11:40	Browsing the deeps - a look into malware in the web Sami Rautiainen, Stonesoft	A road to big money: evolution of automation methods in malware development Maksym Schipka, MessageLabs
11:40 - 12:20	Changing battleground: security against targeted, low-profile attacks Abhilash Sonwane, Cyberoam	Anti-malware expert system Kyu-beom Hwang, Deok-young Jung, AhnLab
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	Playing dirty: evolving security threats in the gaming world Amir Fouda, Hannah Mariner, CA	DSD Tracer - implementation and experimentation Boris Lau, Sophos
14:40 - 15:20	Insecurity and malware in virtual universes Morton Swimmer, Dirk Husemann, IBM	Pimp my PE: taming malicious and malformed executables Casey Sheehan, Sunbelt Software
	Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:20	Application control for malware protection Vanja Svacjer, Sophos	Anti-rootkit safeguards: welcome Vista Aleksander Czarnowski, Avet
16:20 - 17:00	Hurricane approach: 'false Positive' whens, not ifs Mario Vuksan, Bit9	Patching. Is it always with the best intentions? Alex Hinchliffe, McAfee
17:00 - 19:00	Sponsor presentations
19.30	Welcome drinks reception

Thursday 20 September

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
	Breakfast
09:00 - 09:40	The journey so far: trends, graphs and statistics Martin Overton, Independent researcher, UK	eSWAT: a spyware-resistant virtual keyboard William Allen, Richard Ford, Aldwin Saugere, Florida Institute of Technology
09:40 - 10:20	What a waste - the AV community DoS-ing itself Joe Telafici, Dmitry Gryaznov, McAfee	Stopping malware at the gateway: challenges and solutions Martin Stecher, Secure Computing
	Tea and coffee
10:40 - 11:20	The WildList is dead, long live the WildList! Andreas Marx, Frank Dessmann, AV-Test.org	Continual feature selection: a cost effective method for enhancing the capabilities of enterprise spam solutions Vipul Sharma, John Gardiner Myers, Steve Lewis, Proofpoint
11:20 - 12:00	The marriage of spam and malware: Implications for SMTP malware defence Peter Eicher, Commtouch Software	Have you got anything without spam in it? Tim Ebringer, CA
12:00 - 12:40	A testing methodology for rootkit removal effectiveness Josh Harriman, Symantec	Detecting spam pictures using statistical features Sándor Antal, VirusBuster
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	Transforming victims into cyber-border guards: education as a defence strategy Jeannette Jarvis, Microsoft	'Last-minute' presentations 14:00 - 14:20 Reza Rajabiun, COMDOM Software 14:20 - 14:40 Robert Freeman, IBM
14:40 - 15:20	Phish phodder: is user education helping or hindering? Andrew Lee, Eset David Harley, Small Blue-Green World	'Last-minute' presentations 14:40 - 15:00 Dmitry Gryaznov, McAfee 15:00 - 15:20 Sergei Shevchenko, PC Tools
	Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:20	The Spammers' Compendium: five years on John Graham-Cumming, Independent author	'Last-minute' presentations 15:40 - 16:00 Andrew Walenstein, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 16:00 - 16:20 Erik Wu and Feike Hacquebord, Trend Micro
16:20 - 17:00	Pump-n-dump for fun & profit: an in-depth look into stock spam and brokerage account compromise operations Dmitri Alperovitch, Dr Paul Judge, Dr Sven Krasser, Dr Phyllis Schneck, Secure Computing Dane VandenBerg, US National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance	'Last-minute' presentations 16:20 - 16:40 Roel Schouwenberg, Kaspersky Lab 16:40 - 17:00 Kurt Baumgartner, PC Tools
17:00 - 18:00	Sponsor presentations
19:30	Pre-dinner drinks followed by gala dinner & cabaret

Friday 21 September

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
	Breakfast
09:40 - 10:20	Menace 2 the wires: advances in the business models of cybercriminals Guillaume Lovet, Fortinet	Formal model proposal for (malware) program stealth Eric Filiol, Virology and Cryptology Lab, Army Signals Academy
	Tea and coffee
10:40 - 11:20	The trojan money spinner Mika Ståhlberg, F-Secure	Virusability of modern mobile environments Vesselin Bontchev, FRISK
11:20 - 12:00	Once upon a time a trojan... Luis Corrons, Panda	Unpacking PE files on Windows Mobile Nicolas Brulez, Websense
12:00 - 12:40	New approaches to categorising economically-motivated digital threats Anthony Arrott, David Perry, Trend Micro	Apple Media Files and iPhone Marius van Oers, McAfee
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	The strange case of Julie Amero Alex Shipp, MessageLabs	A deeper look at malware - the whole story Bryan Lu, Fortinet
14:40 - 15:20	Application forensics Tim Ebringer, CA	Malware removal - beyond content and context scanning Tom Brosch, Maik Morgenstern, AV-Test.org
	Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:20	Future threats John Aycock, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary Alana Maurushat, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales	Virus linguistics - searching for ethnic words Masaki Suenaga, Symantec
16:20 - 17:00	Panel discussion: The fight against international cyber crime - enforcing the law David Thomas, FBI, Stacy Arruda, FBI, Kevin Zuccato, Australian Federal Police, Mark Oram, CPNI, TBC, TBC
17:00 - 17:15	Conference closing session

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