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WORKSHOP SESSIONS

Session papers are available to workshop registrants immediately and to everyone beginning April 15, 2008.

All sessions will take place in the Gold Rush A room of the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway unless otherwise noted.

Monday, April 14, 2008
6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

NSDI '08 and Workshops Welcome Get-Together

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
8:30 a.m.–8:40 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Program Chair: Fabian Monrose, Johns Hopkins University

8:40 a.m.–10:40 a.m.

Attacker Behavior

Session Chair: Niels Provos, Google Inc.

On the Spam Campaign Trail
Christian Kreibich, International Computer Science Institute; Chris Kanich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego; Vern Paxson, International Computer Science Institute; Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego

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Characterizing Botnets from Email Spam Records
Li Zhuang, University of California, Berkeley; John Dunagan, Daniel R. Simon, Helen J. Wang, Ivan Osipkov, and Geoff Hulten, Microsoft Research; J.D. Tygar, University of California, Berkeley

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Peeking into Spammer Behavior from a Unique Vantage Point
Abhinav Pathak and Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University; Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan

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Behind Phishing: An Examination of Phisher Modi Operandi
D. Kevin McGrath and Minaxi Gupta, Indiana University, Bloomington

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10:40 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

New Threats and Related Challenges

Session Chair: Moheeb Rajab, Johns Hopkins University

Awarded Best Paper!
Designing and Implementing Malicious Hardware
Samuel T. King, Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang, and Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Catching Instant Messaging Worms with Change-Point Detection Techniques
Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Zhen Xiao, Peking University; Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Exploiting Machine Learning to Subvert Your Spam Filter
Blaine Nelson, Marco Barreno, Fuching Jack Chi, Anthony D. Joseph, Benjamin I.P. Rubinstein, Udam Saini, Charles Sutton, J.D. Tygar, and Kai Xia, University of California, Berkeley

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12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.  Workshop Luncheon, Gold Rush B
2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Measurements, Uncertainties, and Legal Issues

Session Chair: David Dagon, Georgia Institute of Technology

Conducting Cybersecurity Research Legally and Ethically
Aaron J. Burstein, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

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Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm
Thorsten Holz, University of Mannheim; Moritz Steiner, University of Mannheim and Institut Eurécom; Frederic Dahl, University of Mannheim; Ernst Biersack, Institut Eurécom; Felix Freiling, University of Mannheim

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The Heisenbot Uncertainty Problem: Challenges in Separating Bots from Chaff
Chris Kanich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego

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Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-based Malware
Michalis Polychronakis, FORTH-ICS; Panayiotis Mavrommatis and Niels Provos, Google Inc.

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4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  Break
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Work-in-Progress Session

Session Chair: Jaeyeon Jung, Intel Research

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5:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks

LEET Steering Committee: Vern Paxson, International Computer Science Institute; Niels Provos, Google Inc.; Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego

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