Fighting malware and spam

VB2008 Ottawa - slides

The following are the presentation slides shown by speakers at the VB2008 conference in Ottawa. We are still waiting for some of the slides to be supplied to us - these will be added when they are submitted to us. The slides are arranged in chronological order of the presentations.

Keynote address

• Alex Eckelberry ('The AV industry: quo vadis?') - a recording of the keynote address is also available here.

Corporate stream

• David Emm ('The malware business')
• Anthony Arrott ('Stormy weather: a quantitative assessment of the Storm web threat in 2007')
• Gunter Ollmann & Holly Stewart ('Intentions of capitalistic malware')
• Paul Baccas ('Affiliate web-based malware')
• Jeff Aboud ('Life beyond outbreaks. Marketing in today's threat environment')
• Gunter Ollmann (on behalf of Joshua Corman) ('How secure is your virtualised network?')
• Benjamin Czarny ('Network Access Control technologies')
• Chris Lewis ('Effective open-source spam filtering for enterprise')
• Chun Feng ('Playing with shadows - exposing the black market for online game password theft')
• Kenneth Bechtel ('A look at defence in depth: the re-evaluation')

Technical stream

• Morton Swimmer ('Towards integrated malware defence')
• Kimmo Kasslin ('Your computer is now stoned (...again!). The rise of the MBR rootkit')
• Matt McCormack ('When the hammer falls - effects of successful widespread disinfection on malware development and direction')
• Eric Kumar ('Applying user-mode memory scanning on Windows NT')
• Tim Ebringer & Li Sun ('A fast randomness test that preserves local detail')
• Ismael Briones ('Graphs, entropy and grid computing: automatic comparison of malware')
• Patrik Ostrihon & Reza Rajabiun ('The robustness of new email identification standards')
• Andrey Bakhmutov ('Coordinated distributions method for tracking botnets sending out spam')
• Martin Overton ('Malware forensics: detecting the unknown')
• Andrew Walenstein & Arun Lakhotia ('Using game theory to assess the strength of an AV system against evolving offences')
• Igor Muttik ('Rebuilding anti-malware testing for the future')
• Richard Ford & William Allen ('Samples.malware.org: sample sharing for the next decade')
• Bartlomiej Uscilowski & Julie Weber ('Clean data profiling')

'Last-minute' technical papers

• Boris Lau ('Race to zero with online scanners')
• Marius van Oers ('Apple iPhone SDK programming')
• Kurt Baumgartner ('Recent rogueware' [ODP format])
• Sorin Mustaca ('URL check: Malware and phishing URLs aggregator')

Discussion forum

• Security in banking

Poll

Virus Bulletin

• Co-operation is the only way
• XXX racted
• Your filters are bypassed: Rustock.C in the kernel
• Family matters
• The Ottawa rules
• DriveSentry Desktop 3.1/3.2 & GoAnywhere 1.0.2/2.0
• The problem of backscatter – part 3