Covering the global threat landscape
VB2012 conference programme
Wednesday 26 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 |
Keynote address: The trade in security exploits: free speech or weapons in need of regulation Christopher Soghoian, American Civil Liberties Union |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Internet background radiation
John Graham-Cumming, CloudFlare |
Defeating anti-forensics in contemporary complex threats
Eugene Rodionov, ESET Aleksandr Matrosov, ESET |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 |
BYOD:(B)rought (Y)our (O)wn (D)estruction?
Righard Zwienenberg, ESET |
Where do we stand with banking trojans today?
Candid Wüest, Symantec |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
I am not a number, I am a free man
Vicente Diaz, Kaspersky Lab |
A fast and precise malicious PDF filter
Wei Xu, Palo Alto Networks Xinran Wang, Palo Alto Networks Huagang Xie, Palo Alto Networks Yanxin Zhang, Palo Alto Networks |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Less aggressive, more effective: social engineering with paid archives
Sergey Chernyshev, Microsoft Daniel Chipiristeanu, Microsoft |
On temporal population drift in malware families
Anshuman Singh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Andrew Walenstein, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Arun Lakhotia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Practise what you preach: a study on tech-savvy readers' immunity to social engineering techniques
Sabina Raluca Datcu, Bitdefender Ioana Jelea, Bitdefender |
Building a test environment for Android anti-malware tests
Hendrik Pilz, AV-TEST |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:50 - 16:20 |
Evaluating anti-virus products with field studies
Fanny Lalonde Lévesque, École Polytechnique de Montréal Carlton R. Davis, École Polytechnique de Montréal José M. Fernandez, École Polytechnique de Montréal |
Seeing through Smoke: analysis of the cheapest loader around
Micky Pun, Fortinet |
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| 16:20 - 16:50 |
How to test properly: comparative web filter tests
Martijn Grooten, Virus Bulletin |
Dorkbot: hunting zombies in Latin America
Pablo Ramos, ESET |
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| 16:50 - 17:20 |
Malware and Mrs Malaprop: what do consumers really know about AV? (sponsor presentation)
Stephen Cobb, ESET |
A little bit about the freemium phenomenon from the proud beer provider (sponsor presentation)
Milos Korenko, AVAST Software |
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| 19.30 | VB2012 drinks reception | ||
Thursday 27 September
Friday 28 September
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
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| Breakfast | |||
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Using an expert system to provide automated malware analysis for non-experts (or using machines to provide meaningful analysis for humans)
Hermineh Tchagatzbanian, Microsoft Heather Goudey, Microsoft |
Using clustering to detect and mitigate spam distributions
Andrey Bakhmutov, Kaspersky Lab |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
The new wave of 'undetectable' DGA threats
Gunter Ollmann, Damballa |
Correlating sentiments and topics with spam waves on social networks
Daniel Dichiu, Bitdefender Lucian Lupsescu, Bitdefender Irina Rancea, Bitdefender |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
To spam or not to spam?
Evgeny Kolotinsky, Kaspersky Lab Darya Gudkova, Kaspersky Lab |
Anatomy of Duqu exploit
Ivan Teblin, Kaspersky Lab |
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| 11:20 - 11:50 |
A plan for email over IPv6
Terry Zink, Microsoft Mukesh Beher, Microsoft |
Security ramifications of Windows Kernel Patch Protection
Denis Nazarov, Kaspersky Lab Alexey Monastyrsky, Kaspersky Lab |
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| 11:50 - 12:20 |
My PC has 32,539 errors: how telephone support scams really work
David Harley, ESET Martijn Grooten, Virus Bulletin Steven Burn, Malwarebytes Craig Johnston, Independent researcher |
Cracking the encrypted C&C protocol of the ZeroAccess botnet
John Morris, Kindsight Kevin McNamee, Kindsight |
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| Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Cyberwar: reality, or a weapon of mass distraction?
Andrew Lee, ESET |
IEEE software taggant system in action
Igor Muttik, McAfee Mark Kennedy, Symantec |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Who's next? Identifying risk factors for subjects of targeted attacks
Martin Lee, Symantec |
Windows 8 ELAM: too late, too little!
Abhijit P. Kulkarni, Quick Heal Technologies Prakash D. Jagdale, Quick Heal Technologies |
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| Tea and coffee | |||
| 15:20 - 16:10 |
Panel discussion: The value (and danger) of offensive security research |
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| 16:10 - 16:20 | Conference closing session | ||
Reserve papers
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AMTSO update: changes afoot
Richard Ford, Florida Institute of Technology |
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Online social networks: new heaven for spammers and attackers
Jason Ding, Barracuda Networks |
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Web malware interesting facts
Alexander Sidorov, Yandex |
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