Virus Bulletin : VB2007, Vienna

VB2007 Vienna - slides

The following are the presentation slides shown by speakers at the VB2007 conference in Vienna. 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.

Corporate stream

Abhilash Sonwane ('Changing battleground: security against targeted, low-profile attacks')
Hannah Mariner & Amir Fouda ('Playing dirty: evolving security threats in the gaming world')
Martin Overton ('The journey so far: trends, graphs and statistics') [an updated version of Martin's paper can also be found on his website here.]
Andreas Marx & Frank Dessmann ('The WildList is dead, long live the WildList!')
Josh Harriman ('A testing methodology for rootkit removal effectiveness')
Jeannette Jarvis ('Transforming victims into cyber-border guards: education as a defence strategy')
Luis Corrons ('Once upon a time a trojan...')
David Perry ('New approaches to categorizing economically motivated digital threats')

Technical stream

Boris Lau ('DSD-Tracer implementation and experimentation')
Casey Sheehan ('Pump my PE: parsing malicious and malformed executables')
Alex Hinchliffe ('Patching. Is it always with the best intentions?')
Richard Ford ('A spyware-resistant virtual keyboard')
Martin Stecher ('Stopping malware at the gateway - challenges and solutions')
Sandor Antal ('Detecting spam pictures using statistical features')
Eric Filiol ('Formal model proposal for (malware) program stealth')
Vesselin Bontchev ('Virusability of modern mobile environments')
Marius van Oers ('Apple media files and iPhone')
Bryan Lu ('A deeper look at malware - the whole story')
Maik Morgenstern & Tom Brosch ('Malware removal - beyond content and context scanning')

'Last-minute' technical papers

Reza Rajabiun ('High-speed image part recognition') [The full version of Reza's paper can be found on the COMDOM Software website here.]
Robert Freeman ('Novel code obfuscation with COM')
Andrew Walenstein ('Phylogenetic comparisons of malware')
Feike Hacquebord ('Can you trust your DNS? A case study of a large-scale rogue DNS network')
Kurt Baumgartner ('Storm - Malware 2.0 has arrived')