Call for Papers: EC2ND'10

Thursday, June 24. 2010
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The sixth European Conference on Computer Network Defense (EC2ND) will be held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin) on October 28-29, 2010. The conference brings together researchers from academia and industry within Europe and beyond to present and discuss current topics in applied network and systems security. EC2ND 2010 invites submissions presenting novel ideas in the areas of network defense, intrusion detection and systems security.

EC2ND 2010 specifically encourages submissions presenting work at an early stage with the intention to act as a discussion forum for innovative security research. While our goal is to solicit ideas that are not completely worked out, and might have challenging and interesting open questions, we expect submissions to be supported by some evidence of feasibility or preliminary quantitative results.

Important dates:
  • Paper submission deadline: July 2, 2010
  • Paper acceptance or rejection: August 6, 2010
  • Final paper camera ready copy: August 13, 2010
  • Conference dates: October 28-29, 2010

The full Call for Papers is available at http://2010.ec2nd.org/cfp/
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Chaosradio Express #155

Thursday, June 10. 2010
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Recently I recorded a longer podcast together with Tim Pritlove on malware and botnets. It was published a few days ago as Chaosradio Express #155. The podcast is in German and lasts for about 2.5 hours. The podcast is available at http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre155.html and you can also get it via iTunes.

Here the German description:
Malware hat sich in den letzten 10 Jahren von einem Forschungsfeld zu einer globalen Bedrohung der internationalen Dateninfrastruktur entwickelt. Botnetze stellen dabei die bedauerliche Krönung der kriminellen Aktivitäten dar und es erfordert einen großen Aufwand, diesen Systemen nachzugehen und sie wieder auszuschalten. Trotz eines fortwährenden Katz- und Mausspielchens gelingt es den Sicherheitsforschern immer wieder, große Botnetze vom Netz zu nehmen. Im Gespräch mit Tim Pritlove erläutert Thorsten Holz Geschichte und technische Hintergründe zu Malware und Botnetzen.

Themen: wie sich Malware über die Zeit vom Experiment zum Werkzeug von Kriminellen entwickelt hat; welche Sicherheitslücken ausgenutzt werden; welche Methoden Betriebssysteme haben, sich gegen Malware zu wehren; das Layer-8-Problem; die Antiviren-Industrie; was Microsoft für seine Sicherheit getan hat; Botnetze und Spam und andere Formen der Monetarisierung; wie sich Botnetze gegen Aufklärung schützen; wie man ein Botnetz ausforscht, austrickst und lahmlegt; Botnetze aufspüren mit Honeypots; Botnetze in Behörden und Botschaften; Kommunikation und Kollaboration von Securitygruppen; technische und moralische Probleme beim Herunterfahren eines Botnets; Kooperation mit ISPs; Botnetzbekämpfung vs. Zensurinfrastruktur; Botnetze und der Mac; Konzepte für sichere Betriebssysteme; Security Usability; Automatisierte Malware Analyse.

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Challenge 4 of the Forensic Challenge 2010 - VoIP

Thursday, June 10. 2010
Quick blog posting about the new forensic challenge by the Honeynet Project:

Challenge 4 - VoIP - (provided by Ben Reardon from the Australian and Sjur Eivind Usken from Norwegian Chapter) takes you into the world of voice communications on the Internet. VoIP with SIP is becoming the de-facto standard for voice communication on the Internet. As this technology becomes more common, malicious parties have more opportunities and stronger motives to take control of these systems to conduct nefarious activities. This Challenge is designed to examine and explore some of attributes of the SIP and RTP protocols. Enjoy the challenge.


You can find all info at http://honeynet.org/challenges/2010_4_voip. Submission deadline is June 30th 2010 - thus you still have some time to work on the challenge. You can win books, for example a signed copy of "Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection" by Niels and me.
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