Forwarded from: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj (at) usenix.org> The submissions deadline for the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '09) is quickly approaching. Please submit full papers by 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, January 16, 2009. http://www.usenix.org/leet09/cfpb LEET '09 will focus on the underlying mechanisms used to compromise and control hosts, the large-scale "applications" being perpetrated upon this framework, or the social and economic networks driving these threats. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Infection vectors for malware (worms, viruses, etc.) * Botnets, command and control channels * Spyware * Operational experience * Forensics * Click fraud * Measurement studies * New threats and related challenges * Boutique and targeted malware * Phishing * Spam * Underground markets * Carding and identity theft * Miscreant counterintelligence * Denial-of-service attacks * Hardware vulnerabilities * Legal issues * The arms race (rootkits, anti–anti-virus, etc.) * New platforms (cellular networks, wireless networks, mobile devices) * Camouflage and detection * Reverse engineering * Vulnerability markets and zero-day economics * Online money laundering * Understanding the enemy * Data collection challenges More information and submission guidelines can be found at http://www.usenix.org/leet09/cfpb LEET '09 will take place April 21, 2009, in Boston, MA, and will be co-located with NSDI '09: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi09 _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Tue Jan 13 2009 - 23:20:25 PST
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