VB2008 conference programme

Wednesday 1 October

	Corporate stream		Technical stream
08:00	Registration
10:00	Tea and coffee
10:30 - 11:00	Opening address
11:00 - 11:40	Keynote address David Thomas, Special Agent in charge of the Columbia Division of the FBI
11:40 - 12:20	Why malware = business risk: the evolving malware ecosystem David Emm, Kaspersky Lab		Towards integrated malware defence Morton Swimmer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	Stormy Weather: a quantitative assessment of the Storm web threat in 2007 Raimund Genes, Anthony Arrott and David Sancho, Trend Micro		Your computer is now stoned (...again!). The rise of MBR rootkits Kimmo Kasslin, F-Secure Elia Florio, Symantec
14:40 - 15:20	Intentions of capitalistic malware Gunter Ollmann, Holly Stewart, IBM		When the hammer falls - effects of successful widespread disinfection on malware development and direction Matt McCormack, Microsoft
	Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:20	Affiliate web-based malware Paul Baccas, Sophos		Applying user-mode memory scanning on Windows NT Eric Uday Kumar, Authentium
16:20 - 17:00	Web security's Achilles heel: browser-borne vulnerabilities Doug Camplejohn, Mi5 Networks		Packer visualisation: a fast entropy scanning algorithm that preserves local detail Tim Ebringer and Li Sun, CA
17:00 - 19:00	Sponsor presentations (There are still a number of sponsorship opportunities available. Contact Allison Sketchley for more information.)
19.30	Welcome drinks reception

Thursday 2 October

	Corporate stream		Technical stream
	Breakfast
09:00 - 09:40	How secure is your virtualized network? Joshua Corman, IBM		Graph, entropy and grid computing: automatic comparison of malware Ismael Briones Vilar, PandaLabs
09:40 - 10:20	Network access control technologies Benny Czarny, OPSWAT		Taxonomy of web-based malware - finding rules for heuristic detection Fraser Howard and Vanja Svajcer, Sophos
	Tea and coffee
10:40 - 11:20	Here comes the flood/end of the pattern file David Perry, Trend Micro		The robustness of new email identification standards Patrik Ostrihon, COMDOM Software Reza Rajabiun, COMDOM Software and York University
11:20 - 12:00	VCC - Virus Control Center: a home-grown helpdesk application to efficiently handle the never-ending flood of malware Oliver Auerbach, Cosmin Ancuta and Robert Harja, Avira		Coordinated distributions method for tracking botnets sending out spam Andrey Bakhmutov, Kaspersky Lab
12:00 - 12:40	Mapping and understanding extinction patterns for viruses and worms over 15 years Joe Wells, Lavasoft		Tackling parasitic (piggy-back) spam Ashish Aggarwal, Symantec
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	Non-English spam: a case study Vipul Sharma, Yanyan Yang and Jason Wallace, Proofpoint		Last-minute presentations TBC
14:40 - 15:20	Russian spammers: the view from Russia Darya Gudkova, Kaspersky Lab		Last-minute presentations TBC
	Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:20	The NorTel Mailer: effective open-source spam filtering for enterprises Chris Lewis and Thomas Choi, Nortel		Last-minute presentations TBC
16:20 - 17:00	SCADA security - who is really in control of our control systems? Peter Allor, IBM		Last-minute presentations TBC
17:00 - 17:40	Law enforcement panel TBC
19:30	Pre-dinner drinks followed by gala dinner & cabaret

Friday 3 October

	Corporate stream		Technical stream
	Breakfast
09:40 - 10:20	Understanding and teaching bots and botnets Randy Abrams, ESET		Game-theoretic framework to assess attack-resistance of an AV system Bin Mai, Northwestern State University Anshuman Singh, Andrew Walenstein and Arun Lakhotia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
	Tea and coffee
10:40 - 11:20	Who will test the testers? David Harley and Andrew Lee, ESET		Automatic rules-based binary analysis with IDA Pro and CLIPS Ryan Hicks, AVG
11:20 - 12:00	Playing with shadows - exposing the black market for online game password theft Chun Feng, Microsoft		Rebuilding testing for the future Igor Muttik and James Vignoles, McAfee
12:00 - 12:40	Report card on a network based anti-worm defence system John Morris, Nortel		Samples.malware.org: sample sharing for the next decade? Richard Ford, Thomas Walsh and William Allen, Florida Institute of Technology
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	Where do your users want to go today and can you stop them? Bruce Hughes, AVG		Crawling the Dark Web Tony Lee, Microsoft
14:40 - 15:20	The name of the dose: does malware naming still matter? Pierre-Marc Bureau and David Harley, ESET		Google vs evil Ivan Macalintal, Trend Micro
	Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:20	What just bit me? Gabrielle Dowling, Proskauer		Darwin inside the machines: malware evolution and the consequences for computer security Peter Ször, Symantec Dimitris Iliopoulos and C. Adami, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
16:20 - 17:00	Security in banking forum TBC
17:00 - 17:15	Conference closing session

Reserve papers

Life beyond outbreaks - marketing in today's threat environment

Jeff Aboud, In-Focus Marketing

A look at defence in depth

Kenneth Bechtel, Team Anti-Virus

Malware development life cycle

Raymond Roberts, Microsoft

Using throttling and traffic shaping to combat botnet spam

Ken Simpson, MailChannels

Fight against the anonymous: a deep look at the custom packer

Xiaodong Tan, Websense

Clean data profiling

Catherine Robinson, Julie Weber, Bartlomiej Uscilowski and Thomas Parsons, Symantec

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