Fighting malware and spam
VB2007 conference programme
Wednesday 19 September
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Application control for malware protection
Vanja Svacjer, Sophos |
Anti-rootkit safeguards: welcome Vista
Aleksander Czarnowski, Avet |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 12:00 - 12:40 |
A testing methodology for rootkit removal effectiveness
Josh Harriman, Symantec |
Detecting spam pictures using statistical features
Sándor Antal, VirusBuster |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
The trojan money spinner
Mika Ståhlberg, F-Secure |
Virusability of modern mobile environments
Vesselin Bontchev, FRISK |
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| 11:20 - 12:00 |
Once upon a time a trojan...
Luis Corrons, Panda |
Unpacking PE files on Windows Mobile
Nicolas Brulez, Websense |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
Application forensics
Tim Ebringer, CA |
Malware removal - beyond content and context scanning
Tom Brosch, Maik Morgenstern, AV-Test.org |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 17:00 - 17:15 | Conference closing session | ||
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