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Wednesday, 01 October 2008
Final Program

                                                        Final Program

                                                    October 7-8, 2008

First Day - October 7, 2008:

Malware ‘ 08

 

 

07:00 – 08:00 AM

Registration & Breakfast

 

08:15 – 12:00 PM

Tutorial: War of the Airways - Wireless Attacks, Basic Principles, What can you do to defend your organization?

Dr. Amit Sinha, CIO, Air Defense Corporation

and

Dr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio, Director, Wireless Systems Security Research Laboratory

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch  

 

Malware ‘ 08

 

 

13:00 – 13:15

Welcome Remarks by General Program Chair

 

Dr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio

13:15 – 14:00

Keynote: “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – Reflections on the State of the Computer Security Industry”

Mr. Barry Raveendran Greene, 

Security Architect, Industry Instigator, and Director of Juniper Network's Security Incident Response Team (SIRT).

14:00 - 14:15 Coffee Break  

14:15 – 15:45 

Session # 1 - Malware analysis & reverse engineering

Session Chair: Jason Geffner

 

#1569134919: Morphological detection

Mr. Guillaume Bonfante; Mr. Matthieu Kaczmarek; Prof. Jean-Yves Marion, Ecole des Mines de Nancy

#1569135724: Server-Side Script Polymorphism: Techniques of Analysis and Defense

 

Dr. Cristian Craioveanu, Microsoft Corporation

#1569138504: An automatic anti-anti-VMware technique applicable for multi-stage packed malware

 

Mr. Li Sun and Prof. Serdar Boztas, RMIT University
Dr. Tim Ebringer, The University of Melbourne. Australia

15:45 – 16:00

Coffee Break

 

 

16:00 - 17:30

 

Panel # 1: The "Good Guys" Must Win – Challenges and Innovation

Topic: Many argue that the battle against the "bad guys" (hackers, individuals that generate Malware) is already lost. 

They reason that the problem of protecting our global information technology infrastructure is almost hopeless when one considers the hundreds of million of lines of code in the Operating Systems, user applications or dedicated embedded solutions that are vulnerable to malicious attacks due to inherent software defects. 

We believe that this is not the case and therefore challenge the panelist to argue the following ideas:

- Have the bad guys won?

- If not, will they win in the near future?

- If we are going to prevent the “bad guys” from winning, then,

What are the existing gaps in products, future products, or basic research that need to be addressed in order to prevent the chaos that must certainly follow if they win?

Panelist:

Mr. Andrew Lee
CRO
ESET LLC

Mr. Jason Geffner, Next Generation Security Software, USA

Mr. Barry Green
Juniper Networks

Dr. Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks

Moderator: Dr. Colon Osorio

17:30 – 18:30

 Break

18:30 – 20:00 

 

Best Paper Award Reception 

 

 

 

 

Second Day - October 8, 2008:

Malware ‘ 08

 

 

07:00 – 08:00

Registration & Breakfast

 

08:00 - 09:00

 

Keynote: The Scalability Problem

David Marcus, Security Research and communications manager

McAfee, Inc. Avert Labs

09:00 - 10:30

Session # 2 - BotNets

Session Chairs: Andrew Lee

#1569136954: As the Net Churns: Fast-Flux Botnet Observations

 

Dr. Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks and 

Mr. Thorsten Holz, University of Mannheim

#1569139531: Sybil attacks as a mitigation strategy against the Storm botnet

 

 

Dr. Carlton Davis, Prof. José Fernandez, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Prof. Stephen W Neville, University of Victoria

Dr. John McHugh, Dalhousie University

#1569138796: P2P as botnet command and control: a deeper insight Mr. David Dittrich, University of Washington and

Dr. Sven  Dietrich, Stevens Institute of Technology

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

 

10:45 - 12:15

Session # 3 - Botnets and Spam

Session Chairs: Cliff Zhou

 

#1569135864: Superimposing Permutational Covert Channels onto Reliable Stream Protocols Prof. Bilal Khan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

and

Ms. Jamie Levy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

#1569138878: Shades of Grey: On the effectiveness of reputation-based "blacklists''

 

Mr. Sushant Sinha, Mr. Michael Bailey, Prof. Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan

#1569136076: Image Spam - ASCII to the Rescue!

Mr. Jordan Nielson, Mr. Daniel de Castro, and 
Prof. John Aycock, University of Calgary

12:15 - 13:15

 Lunch

 

13:15 - 14:45

Session # 4 - Malware Classification

Session chair: Jason Geffner

#1569136806: Function Length as a Tool for Malware Classification Ronghua Tian, Prof. Lynn Batten, Deakin University
and
Steve Versteeg, CA Labs
#1569135565: Using Markov Chains to Detect Machine-morphed Variants of Malicious Programs Mr. Mohamed Chouchane, Columbus State University
and
Dr. Andrew Walenstein and Prof. Arun Lakhotia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
#1569135636:  Combating File Infectors on Corporate Networks Vinoo Thomas and Nitin Jyoti, McAfee Avert Labs, India
14:45 - 15:00 Coffee Break  
15:00 - 16:30

"Birds of a Feather session"

Session Chairs: Dr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio

 

1569138966: Drive-by Downloads from the Trenches Mr. David Harley and Mr. Pierre-Marc Bureau
ESET Corporation
     

Concluding Remarks

16:30

 

Dr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio

 

 

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