VB2012 Dallas - slides

The following are the presentation slides shown by speakers at the VB2012 conference in Dallas. We are still waiting for some of the slides to be supplied to us - these will be added when they are submitted to us. The slides are arranged in chronological order of the presentations. All files are in PDF format unless otherwise specified.

If you were a VB2012 speaker and do not see your slides here, please send them to [email protected] so that we can add them.

Keynote address

• The trade in security exploits: free speech or weapons in need of regulation (Christopher Soghoian, American Civil Liberties Union; abstract)

Corporate stream

• Internet background radiation (John Graham-Cumming, CloudFlare; abstract)
• BYOD:(B)rought (Y)our (O)wn (D)estruction? (Righard Zwienenberg, ESET; abstract)
• Less aggressive, more effective: social engineering with paid archives (Sergey Chernyshev & Daniel Chipiristeanu, Microsoft; abstract)
• Practise what you preach: a study on tech-savvy readers' immunity to social engineering techniques (Sabina Datcu & Ioana Jelea, Bitdefender; abstract)
• Evaluating anti-virus products with field studies (José Fernandez, Fanny Lalonde-Lévesque & Carlton R. Davis, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; abstract)
• Malware and Mrs Malaprop: what do consumers really know about AV? (sponsor presentation) (Stephen Cobb, ESET; abstract)
• Malware taking a bit(coin) more than we bargained for (Amir Fouda, Microsoft; abstract)
• The tale of one thousand and one ADSL modems (Fabio Assolini, Kaspersky Lab; abstract)
• Android malware exposed - an in-depth look at the evolution of Android malware (Grayson Milbourne & Armando Orozco, Webroot; abstract)
• Teaching consumers security habits (Randy Abrams, independent researcher; abstract)
• A study of malware attacks on online shoppers in China (sponsor presentation) (Royce Lu, Qihoo 360; abstract)
• Using an expert system to provide automated malware analysis for non-experts (or using machines to provide meaningful analysis for humans) (Heather Goudey & Hermineh Tchagatzbanian, Microsoft; abstract)
• A plan for email over IPv6 (Terry Zink & Mukesh Beher, Microsoft; abstract)
• My PC has 32,539 errors: how telephone support scams really work (David Harley, ESET; Steven Burn, Malwarebytes; Martijn Grooten, Virus Bulletin & Craig Johnston, independent researcher; abstract)
• Who's next? Identifying risk factors for subjects of targeted attacks (Martin Lee, Symantec; abstract)

Technical stream

• Defeating anti-forensics in contemporary complex threats (Eugene Rodionov & Aleksandr Matrosov, ESET; abstract)
• Current advances in banking trojans (Candid Wüest, Symantec; abstract)
• A fast and precise malicious PDF filter (Wei Xu et al., Palo Alto Networks; abstract)
• Building a test environment for Android anti-malware tests (Hendrik Pilz, AV-TEST; abstract)
• Seeing through Smoke: analysis of the cheapest loader around (Micky Pun, Fortinet; abstract)
• Dorkbot: hunting zombies in Latin America (Pablo Ramos, ESET; abstract)
• A little bit about the freemium phenomenon (sponsor presentation) (Milos Korenko, AVAST Software; abstract)
• Flashback OS X malware (Broderick Aquilino, F-Secure; abstract)
• Using clustering to detect and mitigate spam distributions (Andrey Bakhmutov, Kaspersky Lab; abstract)
• Correlating sentiments and topics with spam waves on social networks (Daniel Dichiu et al., Bitdefender; abstract)
• Anatomy of Duqu exploit (Ivan Teblin, Kaspersky Lab; abstract)
• Cracking the encrypted C&C protocol of the ZeroAccess botnet (John Morris, Kindsight; abstract)
• IEEE software taggant system in action (Igor Muttik, McAfee & Mark Kennedy, Symantec; abstract)
• Windows 8 ELAM: too late, too little! (Abhijit Kulkarni & Prakash Jagdale, Quick Heal Technologies; abstract)

'Last-minute' technical papers

• To get your malware noticed: target all the police forces in Europe (Loucif Kharouni, Trend Micro; abstract)
• Gataka: a banking trojan ready to take off? (Jean-Ian Boutin, ESET; abstract)
• ACAD/Medre: industrial espionage in Latin America? (Robert Lipovsky & Sebastian Bortnik, ESET; abstract)
• Russian hackers, proxy resellers, and rootkits (Joseph Bingham, Symantec; abstract)

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