VB2009 conference programme

Wednesday 23 September

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
08:00	Registration
10:00	Tea and coffee
10:30 - 11:00	Opening address
11:00 - 11:40	Keynote address: Reforming the landscape Eric Davis, Google
11:40 - 12:20	Cyber-insurance: a financial perspective to incident response Pascal Lointier, AIG Europe	Blast from the past: application of the MS08-067 exploit in real world malware Elda Dimakiling, Microsoft Francis Allan Tan Seng, Microsoft Scott Wu, Microsoft
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	Is there a lawyer in the lab? Juraj Malcho, ESET	Challenges in kernel-mode memory scanning Aditya Kapoor, McAfee Rachit Mathur, McAfee
14:40 - 15:20	Malware on a mission Amir Fouda, CA - HCL	AntiRE en masse Kurt Baumgartner, PC Tools
	Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:20	Malice through the looking glass: behaviour analysis for the next decade Jeff Debrosse, ESET David Harley, ESET	PE-probe: leveraging packer detection and structural information to detect malicious portable executables M. Zubair Shafiq, nexGIN RC Syeda Momina Tabish, nexGIN RC Muddassar Farooq, nexGIN RC
16:20 - 17:00	Fighting cybercrime: technical, juridical, and ethical challenges Guillaume Lovet, Fortinet	'I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then' Chun Feng, Microsoft
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 24 September

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
	Breakfast
09:00 - 09:40	Profiling hackers: real data, real experiences, wrong myths Raoul Chiesa, UNICRI/ISECOM	Why 'in-the-cloud' scanning is not a solution Maik Morgenstern, AV-test Andreas Marx, AV-test
09:40 - 10:20	The partnerka - what is it, and why should you care? Dmitry Samosseiko, Sophos	Tales from cloud nine Mihai Chiriac, BitDefender
	Tea and coffee
10:40 - 11:20	'I am not a numero!': assessing global security threat levels Bryan Lu, Fortinet	Last-minute presentations: 10:40 - 11:10 Brazil: land of plentiful bankers, Dmitry Bestuzhev, Kaspersky Lab 11:10 - 11:40 iPhone v3 malware vector, Marius van Oers, McAfee
11:20 - 12:00	Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO): the status right now Righard Zwienenberg, Norman/AMTSO	Last-minute presentation: 11:40 - 12:10 The real face of Koobface, Ryan Flores, Joey Costoya and Jonell Baltazar, Trend Micro
12:00 - 12:40	Win32/Sality network activity Arkady Kovtun, CA - HCL	Last-minute presentation: 12.10 - 12:40 Twarfing: malicious tweets, Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Lab, & Morton Swimmer, Rainer Link and David Sancho Trend Micro
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	Gimme me all your money! Darya Bronnikova, Kaspersky Lab Anna Volodina, Kaspersky Lab	Last-minute presentations: 14:00 - 14:30 Human-based computation: how crowd-sourcing can solve some of the trickiest security problems, Sumesh Jaiswal, Symantec 14:30 - 15:00 WebStalker - detection of malicious web pages through monitoring web browser behaviour, Minseong Kim, AhnLab
14:40 - 15:20	How to reclaim your sender reputation Terry Zink, Microsoft	Last-minute presentation: 15:00 - 15:30 Connecting the AV industry, Igor Muttik, McAfee
15:20 - 16:00	Spam and legislation Darya Gudkova, Kaspersky Lab Andrey Nikishin, Kaspersky Lab	Last-minute presentation: 15:30 - 16:00 My Bots Are Not Yours! A case study of 600+ real-world living botnets, Erik Wu and Gunter Ollmann, Damballa
	Tea and coffee
16:20 - 17:00	A closer look at Mac OS X threats Methusela Cebrian Ferrer, CA - HCL	Botnet-powered SQL injection attacks: a deeper look within David Maciejak, Fortinet Guillaume Lovet, Fortinet
17:00 - 17:40	Modern day magic on the Internet Greg Day, McAfee	Detecting malicious documents with combined static and dynamic analysis Carsten Willems, University of Mannheim Thorsten Holz, University of Mannheim Markus Engelberth, University of Mannheim
19:30	Pre-dinner drinks followed by gala dinner & cabaret

Friday 25 September

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
	Breakfast
09:00 - 09:40	When web 2.0 sneezes, everyone gets sick Stefan Tanase, Kaspersky Lab	A spam novelty detection system Claudiu Cristian Musat, BitDefender Andra Miloiu, BitDefender Carmen Mitrica, BitDefender
09:40 - 10:20	Social networks: 'Hit all once' - attackers' perspective Swanand Dattaram Shinde, Quick Heal	The CURSE of anti-spam testing Martijn Grooten, Virus Bulletin
	Tea and coffee
10:40 - 11:20	Hitting the 'up to date' bulls eye Steven Ginn, OPSWAT	A fractal approach to social network spam detection Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, BitDefender Carmen Maria Cosoi, Nielsen
11:20 - 12:00	Volume of threat: the AV update deployment bottleneck Wei Yan, Trend Micro Anthony Arrott, Trend Micro	JavaScript security: the elephant running in your browser John Graham-Cumming,
12:00 - 12:40	The cloud or the mist? Marian Radu, Microsoft Hilda Larina Ragragio, Microsoft	Using the wisdom of crowds to address the malware long tail Carey Nachenberg, Symantec Vijay Seshadri, Symantec Zulfikar Ramzan, Symantec
	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	ANUBIS - ANalyzing Unknown BInarieS - the automatic way Thomas Mandl, Secure Business Austria/IKARUS Security Software Florian Nentwich, IKARUS Security Software Ulrich Bayer, Vienna University of Technology/Institute Eurecom Engin Kirda, Vienna University of Technology/Institute Eurecom	Firefox malware, when your browser bites you Candid Wueest, Symantec Elia Florio, Italian Data Protection Authority
14:40 - 15:20	Virtual machines for real malware capture and analysis Martin Overton, IBM	The modern rogue - malware with a face Hamish O'Dea, Microsoft
	Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:30	Panel discussion: Free AV vs paid-for AV, Rogue AVs
16:30 - 16:45	Conference closing session

Reserve papers

Socialnetworkeering: do you know who your friends really are?

Andrew Lee, K7 Computing
Lysa Myers, WestCoast Labs

Whatever happened to the unlikely lads? A hoaxing metamorphosis

David Harley, ESET
Randy Abrams, ESET

URLCheck: making the world a safer place

Sorin Mustaca, Avira
Cosmin Luta, Avira

Misusing trust: search engines targeted to deliver malware

Parveen Vashishtha, Symantec

Last-minute paper reserve: Fragmented distribution attack

Anoirel Issa, MessageLabs, Symantec

Last-minute paper reserve: The Waledac botnet: understanding it and breaking it

Pierre-Marc Bureau, ESET
Joan Calvet, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

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