Monday, November 5. 2007
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:
- 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.
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