Covering the global threat landscape
VB2011 conference programme
Wednesday 5 October
| 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 |
Keynote address: The m00p investigation: law enforcement and the anti-virus industry working in partnership Bob Burls, Police Central e-Crime Unit, Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
A look at the cybercrime ecosystem and the way it works
Dmitry Bestuzhev, Kaspersky Lab |
Predicting the future of stealth attacks
Aditya Kapoor, McAfee Rachit Mathur, McAfee |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Bonnie and Clyde: the crazy lives of the Brazilian bad guys
Fabio Assolini, Kaspersky Lab |
Same botnet, same guys, new code
Pierre-Marc Bureau, ESET |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
A study of malicious attacks on Facebook
Maria Patricia M. Revilla, Commtouch Robert Sandilands, Commtouch |
A survey of Chinese DDoS malware
Jeff Edwards, Arbor Networks Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Daze of whine and neuroses (but testing is FINE)
David Harley, ESET Larry Bridwell, AVG |
The dangers of per-user COM objects in Windows
Jon Larimer, IBM |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
A second life in a virtual environment: from simple socialization to revealing sensitive information
Sabina Raluca Datcu, BitDefender |
File-fraction reputation based on digest of high granularity
Ethan YX Chen, Trend Micro |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:50 - 16:20 |
Social threats: how fragile we are
George Lucian Petre, BitDefender |
Strategies for prioritization of malicious URL re-evaluation
Onur Komili, Sophos Kyle Zeeuwen, Sophos/University of British Columbia Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia |
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| 16:20 - 16:50 |
Automating social engineering
Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, BitDefender Daniel Dichiu, BitDefender |
Malware mining
Igor Muttik, McAfee |
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| 16:50 - 17:20 |
Thriving business model around free security (sponsor presentation)
Milos Korenko, Avast Software |
Security 2012: staying ahead of the game (sponsor presentation)
Robert Lipovsky, ESET Juraj Malcho, ESET |
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| 19.30 | VB2011 drinks reception | ||
Thursday 6 October
Friday 7 October
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
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| Breakfast | |||
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Your reputation precedes you
Gunter Ollmann, Damballa |
Browser exploit packs - exploitation paradigm
Aditya Sood, Michigan State University Richard J. Enbody, Michigan State University |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Cell phone money laundering
Denis Maslennikov, Kaspersky Lab |
Analysing the packer layers of rogue anti-virus programs
Rachit Mathur, McAfee Zheng Zhang, McAfee |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
How to teach people to be aware of cyber security
Terry Zink, Microsoft |
Firing the roast - Java is heating up again
Kurt Baumgartner, Kaspersky Lab |
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| 11:20 - 11:50 |
The unexamined life-missing metrics of malware
David Perry, Trend Micro |
Dissecting Flash with EASE (Experimental ActionScript Emulator)
Bing Liu, Fortinet |
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| 11:50 - 12:20 |
Fake but free and worth every cent
Robert Lipovsky, ESET Daniel Novomesky, ESET Juraj Malcho, ESET |
Fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files: heuristics for detection of exploited OLE2 files based on specification non-conformance
Stephen Edwards, Sophos Paul Baccas, Sophos |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Top exploits of 2011
Holly Stewart, Microsoft |
Static shellcode analysis and classification
Aleksander Czarnowski, AVET Information and Network Security |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
2020 threats: too far away to discuss or too close to ignore?
Maksym Schipka, Kaspersky Lab Andrey Nikishin, Kaspersky Lab |
Bindex 2.0
Tim Ebringer, Microsoft |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:20 - 16:10 |
Panel discussion: Tackling botnets - tracking, felling and offensive strategies |
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| 16:10 - 16:20 | Conference closing session | ||
Reserve papers
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Mobile security top 10 issues to consider
Jason Steer, Veracode |
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GPGPU and threat analysis
Takashi Katsuki, Symantec |
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Automating AutoIt detection
Benson Sy, Trend Micro |
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