[ias-opportunities] Call for Participation: Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM 2005)

["Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@cs.columbia.edu>]

In the last several years, Internet-wide infectious epidemics have
emerged as one of the leading threats to information security and
service availability. The vehicles for these outbreaks, malicious codes
called "worms", take advantage of the combination of software
monocultures and the uncontrolled Internet communication model to
quickly compromise large numbers of hosts. Such worms are increasingly
being used as delivery mechanisms for various types of malicious
payloads, including remote-controlled "zombies", spyware and botnets.
Recent incidents have also reveals the use of new propagation techniques
 as well as the use of worms to target small user communities or
specific applications. Current operational practices have not been able
to manage these threats effectively.

WORM 2005 is the 3rd in a series of one-day annual workshops focusing
on the problem of self-propagating malicious programs. The  workshop
brings together researchers and security practitioners from academia,
industry and the government. WORM will be held in conjunction with
the ACM CCS conference, on November 11, 2005 at George Mason University
(GMU), Fairfax campus.

The workshop program, which consists of a mix of invited talks and
presentations of refereed papers, can also be found at:
   http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/worm05/worm-prog.html

The WORM 2005 web page:
   http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/worm05

WORM is sponsored by ACM SIGSAC with contributions from DARPA.





Workshop Program
Friday November 11, 2005 at George Mason University

8:30AM-8:50AM Registration and Breakfast

8:50AM-9:00AM Welcome and Introduction, Angelos Keromytis

9:00AM-11:00AM Session I, Chair: Matt Williamson (Sana Security)

Invited talk: Emerging Threats
Brian Hernacki, (Symantec)

Instant Messaging Worms, Analysis and Countermeasures
Mohammad Mannan and Paul C. van Oorschot (Carleton University)

Self-Stopping Worms
Justin Ma, Geoffrey Voelker, and Stefan Savage (UCSD)

11:00AM-11:30AM Break

11:30AM-1:00PM Session II, Chair: Anup Ghosh (DARPA)

A Self-Learning Worm Using Importance Scanning
Zesheng Chen and Chuanyi Ji (Georgia Tech)

Defending Against Hitlist Worms Using Network Address Space Randomization
Spyros Antonatos, Periklis Akritidis, Evangelos Markatos, and Kostas G. 
Anagnostakis (FORTH-ICS Greece and Institute for Infocomm Research 
Singapore)

On the Effectiveness of Automatic Patching
Milan Vojnovic and Ayalvadi Ganesh (Microsoft Research)

1:00PM-2:00PM Lunch (Buffet, provided)

2:00PM-3:45PM Session III, Chair: Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin)

Invited Talk: An Analysis of the Witty Outbreak: Exploiting Underlying 
Structure for Detailed Reconstructions of an Internet-scale Event
Vern Paxson (ICSI)

Worm Evolution Tracking via Timing Analysis
Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, and Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins 
University)

The Limits of Global Scanning Worm Detectors in the Presence of 
Background Noise
David W. Richardson, Steven D. Gribble, and Edward D. Lazowska 
(University of Washington)

3:45PM-4:15PM Break

4:15PM-6:00PM Session IV, Chair: TBD

Invited talk: Scalable Internet Threat Monitoring
Stefan Savage (UCSD)

Host-Based Detection of Worms Through Peer-to-Peer Cooperation
David J. Malan and Michael D. Smith (Harvard University)

The Detection of RCS Worm Epidemics
Kurt Rohloff and Tamer Basar (UIUC)