Call for Paper: 2nd Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '09)
Thursday, October 9. 2008
The Call for Papers for the Second USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '09) 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 '09 will focus - similar to last year's workshop - 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 held immediately before the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09), which will take place April 22–24, 2009.
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.
Important dates:
- Paper submissions due: January 16, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST
- Notification to authors: March 2, 2009
- Final papers due: March 30, 2009
- Workshop: April 21, 2009 - Boston, MA, USA
The workshop will be will be held immediately before the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09), which will take place April 22–24, 2009.
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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