With a little over three weeks to go until
VB2016
, the
conference programme
is almost complete. We have a great selection of talks on the main programme, half a dozen
Small Talks
that we hope will lead to interesting discussions among participants, and a closing keynote from
Morgan Marquis-Boire
, the hacker, security researcher and journalist, known for his work for
Citizen Lab
and
The Intercept
.
We are excited to announce the addition of nine ‘last-minute’ papers to the programme: presentations covering very hot research topics, which were selected just last week.
Last year’s closing keynote speaker,
Kaspersky Lab
researcher
Costin Raiu
, is back with a last-minute presentation on unattributed APT groups, which promises to be very exciting. The same holds for a presentation by his colleague
Kurt Baumgartner
, who will discuss watering hole attacks targeting Italian and Belgian users of encryption.
Not all attacks that affect businesses and individuals are targeted, and one of the most serious threats in the past few years has been ransomware. Though unbreakable when things are done right, fortunately mistakes are often made, allowing researchers to write decryption tools.
Malwarebytes
researcher
hasherezade
will talk about her efforts to break recent ransomware families.
If malware doesn’t go after your files, then it often goes after your online banking details. Two last-minute presentations will look at banking malware, which remains a serious threat around the world.
Jarosław Jedynak
from
CERT Poland
will discuss Nymaim, malware that has targeted more than 270 Polish banks, while
Avast
‘s
Jaromir Horejsi and Jan Sirmer
will discuss how malicious proxy auto-config (PAC) files are used by the Retefe banking trojan.
It’s not only
Windows
users that have to worry about threats these days: malware targeting
OS X
is increasingly common.
ESET
researchers
Peter Kalnai and Martin Jirkal
will discuss how both the KeRanger and the Keydnap malware were distributed as recompiled versions of the legitimate
Transmission
Bittorrent client.
Synack
‘s
Patrick Wardle
will present a new vector for malware on
OS X
to stealthily record audio and video, and will also look at the audio/video capture capabilities of the newly discovered
Mokes
trojan.
With malware still as big a threat as it was a decade ago, there is understandably a lot of focus on endpoint security. However, the market of endpoint security products is rapidly changing.
Adrian Sanabria
from
451 Research
will discuss these changes and predict how the market may look in five years’ time.
Finally, not all attacks take place on the endpoint. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is both an important glue that allows us to route packers over the Internet and a weak point that can (and sometimes is) abused.
Mike Benjamin
from
Level 3 Communications
will discuss the current state of BGP and what can be done to improve security.
Want to join us in Denver?
Registration
for VB2016 is still open and if you’re a first time attendee (from a first-time company) you get a 30% discount!
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