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LEET '11 Call for Papers
4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
(LEET '11)
Botnets, Spyware, Worms, and More
March 29, 2011
Boston, MA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
LEET '11 will be co-located with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '11), which will take place March 30–April 1, 2011.
Important
Dates
- Submissions due: Friday, January 28, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PST Deadline Extended!
- Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, February 23, 2011
- Final papers due: Sunday, March 6, 2011
Workshop Organizers
Program Chair
Christopher Kruegel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Program Committee
Michael Bailey, University of Michigan
David Dagon, Independent
Nick Feamster, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chris Grier, International Computer Science Institute and University of California, Berkeley
Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University
Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Engin Kirda, Northeastern University
Paolo Milani Comparetti, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Fabian Monrose, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
David Moore, Cisco, Inc.
Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks, Inc.
Vern Paxson, International Computer Science Institute and University of California, Berkeley
Phil Porras, SRI International
Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego
Yinglian Xie, Microsoft Research
Steering Committee
Fabian Monrose, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Vern Paxson, International Computer Science Institute and University of California, Berkeley
Niels Provos, Google Inc.
Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego
Overview
As the Internet has become a universal mechanism for commerce and
communication, it has also become an attractive medium for online
criminal enterprise. Today, widespread vulnerabilities in both
software and user behavior allow miscreants to compromise millions of
hosts (via worms, viruses, drive-by exploits, etc.), conceal their
activities with sophisticated system software (rootkits), and manage
these resources via a distributed command and control framework
(botnets). These tools in turn provide economies of scale for a wide
range of malicious activities, including spam, phishing, DDoS, and click
fraud. Much of this activity is driven by economic
incentives, but recently we have seen the emergence of highly
visible, politically motivated attacks. While the motivations for
malicious behavior and the technical mechanisms that enable them
remain rich areas of research, it is clear that, today, our global
society is faced with a wide range of cyber criminal activities that
need to be studied and defended against.
Topics
Now in its fourth year, LEET continues to be a unique and leading forum
for the discussion of threats to the confidentiality of our data, the
integrity of digital transactions, and the dependability of the
technologies we increasingly rely upon. We encourage submissions of
papers that focus on the malicious activities themselves (e.g.,
reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation, rootkit
installation, attack), our responses as defenders (e.g., prevention,
detection, and mitigation), or the social, political, and economic
goals driving these malicious activities and the legal and ethical
codes guiding our defensive responses. Topics of interest include but
are not limited to:
- Infection vectors for malware (worms, viruses, etc.)
- Botnets, command and control channels
- Spyware
- Operational experience and case studies
- Forensics
- Click fraud
- Measurement studies
- New threats and related challenges
- Boutique and targeted malware
- Phishing
- Spam
- Underground economy
- Miscreant counterintelligence
- Carding and identity theft
- Denial-of-service attacks
- Hardware vulnerabilities
- Legal issues
- The arms race (rootkits, anti–anti-virus, etc.)
- New platforms (cellular networks, wireless networks, mobile devices)
- Camouflage and detection
- Reverse engineering
- Vulnerability markets and zero-day economics
- Online money laundering
- Understanding the enemy
- Data collection challenges
Workshop Format
LEET aims to be a true workshop, with the twin goals of fostering the
development of preliminary work and helping to unify the broad
community of researchers and practitioners who focus on worms, bots,
spam, spyware, phishing, DDoS, and the ever-increasing palette of
large-scale Internet-based threats. Intriguing preliminary results and
thought-provoking ideas will be strongly favored; papers will be
selected for their potential to stimulate discussion in the
workshop. Each author will have 15 minutes to present his or her work,
followed by 15 minutes of discussion with the workshop participants.
Submission Instructions
Submitted papers must be no longer than eight (8) 8.5" x 11" pages,
including figures, tables, and references, formatted in two (2)
columns, using 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with
the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Author names
and affiliations should appear on the title page. Submissions must be
in PDF format and must be submitted via the Web submission form.
All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the workshop. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on the day of the workshop, March 29, 2011.
Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX LEET '11 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Note, however, that we expect that many papers accepted for LEET '11
will eventually be extended as full papers suitable for presentation
at future conferences.
Questions?
Contact your program chair, leet11chair@usenix.org, if you have questions about this Call. For questions related to the USENIX submission policy in particular, contact leet11chair@usenix.org or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.
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