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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')

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