VB2013 Berlin - Slides

The following are the presentation slides shown by speakers at the VB2013 conference in Berlin. 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 VB2013 speaker and do not see your slides here, please send them to [email protected] so that we can add them.

Corporate stream

• Surviving 0-days - reducing the window of exposure (Andreas Lindh, I Secure; abstract)
• Targeted social engineering attacks. Sensitive information, from a theoretical concept to a culturally defined notion (Sabina Datcu, Independent researcher; abstract)
• What can Big Data Security learn from the AV industry? (sponsor presentation) (Stephen Cobb, ESET; abstract)
• Make it tight, protect with might, and try not to hurt anyone (Michael Johnson, Microsoft; abstract)
• Windows 8 SmartScreen application control - what more could you ask for? (Randy Abrams, NSS Labs & Ilya Rabinovich, SoftSphere; abstract)
• Analysis of Android in-app advertisement kits (Axelle Apvrille, Fortinet; abstract)
• Classifying PUAs in the mobile environment (Vanja Svajcer, Sophos; abstract)
• Malicious redirection of mobile users (Roman Unuchek, Kaspersky Lab; abstract)
• Real-world testing, the good, the bad, and the ugly (Craig Schmugar, McAfee; abstract)
• Introducing AVAST The best things in life are free & Linux Desktop Trojans (sponsor presentation) (Milos Korenko, Peter Kalnai & Jaromir Horejsi, Avast Software; abstract)
• The ransomware strikes back (Ciprian Oprisa & George Cabau, Bitdefender; abstract)
• Statistically effective protection against APT attacks (Jarno Niemela, F-Secure; abstract)
• Hacking Team and Gamma International in "business-to-government malware" (Sergey Golovanov, Kaspersky Lab; abstract)

Technical stream

• Hypervisor-based, hardware-assisted system monitoring (Carsten Willems & Ralf Hund, Ruhr University Bochum; abstract)
• Back channels and bitcoins: ZeroAccess' secret C&C communications (James Wyke, Sophos; abstract)
• An automatic analysis and detection tool for Java exploits (Xinran Wang, Palo Alto Networks; abstract)
• The Real Time Threat List (Righard Zwienenberg, ESET & Thomas Wegele, Avira; abstract)
• GinMaster: a case study in Android malware (Rowland Yu, Sophos; abstract)
• "I am not the D'r.0,1d you are looking for": an analysis of Android malware obfuscation (Samir Mody, K7 Computing; abstract)
• The Droid Knight: a silent guardian for the Android kernel, hunting for rogue smartphone malware applications (Farrukh Shazad, nexGIN RC; abstract)
• Billion dollar botnets (Cathal Mullaney, Symantec; abstract)
• PAC - the Problem Auto-Config (or "how to steal bank accounts with a 1KB file") (Fabio Assolini, Kaspersky Lab; abstract)
• Deciphering and mitigating Blackhole spam from email-borne threats (Samir Patil, Symantec; abstract)
• Embedding malware on websites using executable webserver files (Evgeny Sidorov, Yandex; abstract)
• Security research and development framework (Amr Thabet, Q-CERT; abstract)

'Last-minute' technical papers

• Hide and seek - how targeted attacks hide behind clean applications (Gabor Szappanos, Sophos; abstract)
• Lessons learned: sinkholing a peer-to-peer botnet (Ross Gibb, Symantec; abstract)
• Working together to defeat attacks against AV automation (Dennis Batchelder & Hong Jia, Microsoft; abstract)

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