------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ Please excuse multiple copies of this e-mail. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEET '11: Call for Papers 4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) March 29, 2011, Boston, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions deadline: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PST ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Program Committee for the 4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '11) invites you to submit your work. Paper submissions are due Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PST. http://www.usenix.org/events/leet11/cfp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now in its fourth year, LEET continues to provide a unique 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 on. 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 * 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee: Christopher Kruegel (chair), University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Bailey, University of Michigan David Dagon, Independent Nick Feamster, Georgia Institute of Technology Chris Grier, ICSI 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, ICSI and University of California, Berkeley Phil Porras, SRI International Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego Yinglian Xie, Microsoft Research ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission guidelines and more information can be found at http://www.usenix.org/events/leet11/cfp/ LEET '11 will take place on March 29, 2011, in Boston, MA, and will be co-located with NSDI '11: http://www.usenix.org/nsdi11 We look forward to receiving your submissions! On behalf of the LEET '11 Program Committee, Christopher Kruegel, University of California, Santa Barbara LEET '11 Program Chair leet11chair@usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEET '11 Call for Papers 4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) March 29, 2011, Boston, MA http://www.usenix.org/ Submissions deadline: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PST ------------------------------------------------------------------------