Call for Paper: 1st Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '08)
The Call for Papers for the First USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '08) is available since a couple of days. I am very proud to be one of the members of the program committee and hope that some readers of this blog also submit a paper to the workshop. LEET '08 will focus on the underlying mechanisms used to compromise and control hosts, the large-scale "applications" being perpetrated upon this framework, and the social and economic networks driving these threats.
Important dates:
The workshop will be will be co-located with the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI '08), which will take place April 16–18, 2008, and Usability, Psychology, and Security 2008, which will take place on April 14, 2008.
Overview:
As the Internet has become a universal mechanism for commerce and communication, it has also become an attractive medium for online criminal enterprise. Today, widespread vulnerabilities in both software and user behavior allow miscreants to compromise millions of hosts (worms, viruses, drive-by exploits, etc.), conceal their activities with sophisticated system software (rootkits), and manage these resources via a distributed command and control framework (botnets). This platform in turn provides economics of scale for a wide range of criminal activities including spam, phishing, DDoS, click fraud, and so on.
Workshop Format:
LEET aims to be a true workshop, with the twin goals of fostering the development of preliminary work and helping to unify the broad community of researchers and practitioners who focus on worms, bots, spam, spyware, phishing, DDoS, and the ever-increasing palette of large-scale Internet-based threats. Intriguing preliminary results and thought-provoking ideas will be strongly favored and papers will be selected for their potential to stimulate discussion in the workshop. Each author will have 15 minutes to present his or her work, followed by 15 minutes of discussion with the workshop participants.
Submissions:
Submitted papers must be no longer than eight (8) single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page. Submissions must be in PDF format and must be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be available here soon. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication in the Proceedings.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. In some cases, program committees may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. If a violation of these principles is found, sanctions may include, but are not limited to, barring the authors from submitting to or participating in USENIX conferences for a set period, contacting the authors' institutions, and publicizing the details of the case.
Note, however, that we expect that many papers accepted for LEET '08 will eventually be extended as full papers suitable for presentation at future conferences.
Important dates:
- Paper submissions due: February 11, 2008, 11:59 p.m. EST
- Notification to authors: March 24, 2008
- Final papers due: April 4, 2008
- Workshop: April 15, 2008 - San Francisco, CA, USA
The workshop will be will be co-located with the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI '08), which will take place April 16–18, 2008, and Usability, Psychology, and Security 2008, which will take place on April 14, 2008.
Overview:
As the Internet has become a universal mechanism for commerce and communication, it has also become an attractive medium for online criminal enterprise. Today, widespread vulnerabilities in both software and user behavior allow miscreants to compromise millions of hosts (worms, viruses, drive-by exploits, etc.), conceal their activities with sophisticated system software (rootkits), and manage these resources via a distributed command and control framework (botnets). This platform in turn provides economics of scale for a wide range of criminal activities including spam, phishing, DDoS, click fraud, and so on.
Workshop Format:
LEET aims to be a true workshop, with the twin goals of fostering the development of preliminary work and helping to unify the broad community of researchers and practitioners who focus on worms, bots, spam, spyware, phishing, DDoS, and the ever-increasing palette of large-scale Internet-based threats. Intriguing preliminary results and thought-provoking ideas will be strongly favored and papers will be selected for their potential to stimulate discussion in the workshop. Each author will have 15 minutes to present his or her work, followed by 15 minutes of discussion with the workshop participants.
Submissions:
Submitted papers must be no longer than eight (8) single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page. Submissions must be in PDF format and must be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be available here soon. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication in the Proceedings.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. In some cases, program committees may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. If a violation of these principles is found, sanctions may include, but are not limited to, barring the authors from submitting to or participating in USENIX conferences for a set period, contacting the authors' institutions, and publicizing the details of the case.
Note, however, that we expect that many papers accepted for LEET '08 will eventually be extended as full papers suitable for presentation at future conferences.
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