Covering the global threat landscape
VB2010 conference programme
Wednesday 29 September
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
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| 08:00 | Registration | ||
| 10:00 | Tea and coffee | ||
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Opening address | ||
| 10:50 - 11:30 |
Threats to the Social Web Nick Bilogorskiy, Facebook |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Case study - successes and failures apprehending malware authors
Raymond A. Pompon, HCL CapitalStream |
The Mariposa effect
Pedro Bustamante, Panda Security Chris Davis, Defence Intelligence |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 |
How much do you cost? The black market price of your digital data
Dmitry Bestuzhev, Kaspersky Lab |
The Webwail botnet: a reputation-based filter killer
Xu (Kyle) Yang, Fortinet |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Cyberterrorism: oh really?
Morton Swimmer, Trend Micro |
Finding rules for heuristic detection of malicious PDFs: with analysis of embedded exploit code
Paul Baccas, Sophos |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Russian cybercriminals on the move: profiting from mobile malware
Denis Maslennikov, Kaspersky Lab |
High speed JavaScript malware sandbox
Rajesh Mony, Webroot |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Targeted malware attacks: then and now
Presented by Ken Dunham on behalf of Kim Gillo, iSIGHT Partners |
Play by the rules? Should AV be enforcing the rules to prevent uncontrolled obfuscation by malware?
Rachit Mathur, McAfee Aditya Kapoor, McAfee |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:50 - 16:20 |
Victims of friendly fire
Corrado Ronchi, EISST Shukhrat Zakhidov, EISST |
Blackhat SEO: abusing Google Trends to serve malware
Donald DeBolt, CA - HCL Kiran Bandla, CA - HCL |
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| 16:20 - 16:50 |
P2P as a corporate persona non grata
John Alexander, Lockheed Martin |
P0isoning the social web
Dan Hubbard, Websense |
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| 17:00 - 19:00 | Sponsor presentations |
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| 19.30 | Welcome drinks reception | ||
Thursday 30 September
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
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| Breakfast | |||
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Categorizing the entire web with autonomous system numbers
Saeed Abu-Nimeh, Websense Security Labs Dan Hubbard, Websense Security Labs |
SMS spam detection by operating on byte-level distributions using Hidden Markov Models
M. Zubair Rafique, Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center Muddassar Farooq, Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Size matters - measuring a botnet operator's pinkie
Gunter Ollmann, Damballa |
Windows 7 impact upon rogue security software
Josh Norris, iSIGHT Partners Ken Dunham, iSIGHT Partners |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
Automated targeted attacks: the new age of cybercrime
Stefan Tanase, Kaspersky Lab |
Last-minute paper: Dialers are back, and this time they're on smartphones!
Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure |
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| 11:20 - 11:50 |
Bypassing defences - when old tricks work in Windows 7
Zarestel Ferrer, CA - HCL |
Last-minute paper: Alureon: the first 64-bit rootkit
Joe Johnson, Microsoft |
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| 11:50 - 12:20 |
'Want my autograph?': The use and abuse of digital signatures by malware
Mike Wood, Sophos |
Last-minute paper: Caution: level Pegel. The ideal computer infecting scheme.
Alexey Kadiev, Kaspersky Lab Darya Gudkova, Kaspersky Lab |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Social engineering trumps a zero-day every time
Bruce Hughes, AVG Technologies |
Last-minute paper: The ROP pack
Kurt Baumgartner, Kaspersky Lab |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Observations and lessons learned from comparing point-in-time cleaning against real-time protection
Scott Wu, Microsoft |
Last-minute paper: Life on stolen land
Jiri Sejtko, Avast Software Miloslav Korenko, Avast Software |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Why your AV solution is ineffective against today's email-borne threats
Greg Leah, Symantec Hosted Services (formerly MessageLabs) |
Last-minute paper: Intrusions and inside jobs: lessons from the banking industry
Michael Kalinichenko, SafenSoft |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:50 - 16:20 |
An analysis of real-world effectiveness of reputation-based security
Carey Nachenberg, Symantec Vijay Seshadri, Symantec |
Last-minute paper: An indepth look into Stuxnet
Liam O'Murchu, Symantec |
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| 16:20 - 16:50 |
Sneaky Mac OS X threats
Methusela Cebrian Ferrer, CA - HCL |
Last-minute paper: Unravelling Stuxnet
Holly Stewart, Microsoft Peter Ferrie, Microsoft Alexander Gostev, Kasperksy Lab |
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| 19:30 | Pre-dinner drinks followed by gala dinner & cabaret | ||
Friday 1 October
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | |||
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
The psychology of spamming
Terry Zink, Microsoft |
Experiences in malware binary deobfuscation
Hassen Saidi, SRI International Phil Porras, SRI International Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI International |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Still curious about anti-spam testing? Here's a second opinion
David Koconis, ICSA Labs |
Challenging conventional wisdom on byte signatures
Thomas Dullien, zynamics Ero Carrera, VirusTotal/zynamics Christian Blichmann, zynamics Soeren Meyer-Eppler, zynamics |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
Waste management: the current state of sample sharing
Dmitry Gryaznov, McAfee |
The Skype is no longer the limit - new ways malware keeps in touch with your friends
David Wood, Microsoft |
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| 11:20 - 11:50 |
Industry testing and telemetry sharing
Tony Lee, Microsoft Jimmy Kuo, Microsoft |
Gaming the gamers: tricks of the trade in the world of PWS warcraft
Chun Feng, Microsoft |
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| 11:50 - 12:20 |
Standards and policies on packer use
Samir Mody, Sophos Igor Muttik, McAfee Peter Ferrie, Microsoft |
On scanning the Internet or the curse of in-the-cloud URL scanning
Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, BitDefender |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
AV testing exposed
Peter Košinár, ESET Juraj Malcho, ESET Richard Marko, ESET David Harley, ESET |
Zero-day malware
Igor Muttik, McAfee |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Attacks from the inside...
Righard Zwienenberg, Norman Eddy Willems, G DATA |
Large-scale malware experiments, why, how, and so what?
Joan Calvet, LORIA Pierre-Marc Bureau, ESET Jose M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal Jean-Yves Marion, LORIA |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:20 - 16:10 |
Panel discussion: Social networks and computer security |
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| 16:10 - 16:20 | Conference closing session | ||
Reserve papers
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Call of the WildList: last orders for WildCore-based testing?
David Harley, ESET Andrew Lee, K7 Computing |
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The age of Russian trojan-ransoms
Timur Biyachuev, Kaspersky Lab Alexey Malyshev, Kaspersky Lab |
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Kisswow: the OnlineGames gang
Josh Murray, iSIGHT Partners |
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The difference between false positives and FALSE POSITIVES
Mark Kennedy, AMTSO |
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