MALCONF 2014 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software "MALCONF 2014"

9th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software "MALCONF 2014" Call for Papers
Theme: "The Malware Threat in the era of Unlimited Computing Power"
Submission of papers
Research Track July 12th, 2014, 23:59:59 EST
Industry Track July 26th, 2014, 23:59:59 EST
Short Paper Track July 26th,, 2014, 23:59:59 EST
Notification of Acceptance August 28th, 2014, 23:59:59 EST
Camera ready paper: September 5th, 2014: 23:59:59 EST
Conference dates October 28-30, 2014
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software "The Americas" (MALCONF 2014) will be held at El Conquistador Hotel & Resort, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, USA, October 28-30, 2014. This year’s conference has adopted as its main theme "The Malware Threat in the era of Unlimited Computing Power" in recognition of a major paradigm shift that has transformed the computer industry as a whole, and created major challenges to the Security Community in particular.
Fundamentally, over the last 12 years "Cloud Computing", whereas applications and data reside in the Cloud, and are accessed via a SmartPhone owned and operated by your employees- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), has become one of the prevalent computing models.
Within this context, three major research trends have emerged. First, at the end of the chain, the end-point device is a mobile BYOD with security and mobility properties never anticipated. If the end-point device is own and operated by the employee of a large corporation, and the boundaries between "personal" and "Corporate" data, as well as applications disappears, then what is the protection model that can be used? Is the device to be "trusted", Un-Trusted, or simply operates in different modes of protection, one when interacting in a corporate environment, and one when being used strictly as a personal device?
Second, the existence of either a physical or a logical "Trusted Domain" that resides and operates within the confines of a single corporate entity has disappeared. Within this context, we encourage the submission of manuscripts exploring new models of protection that do not depend on ownership or management of a Corporate Trusted Domain, and incorporate elements whereas part of the data, applications, and infrastructure are managed by third parties such as SalesForce.com or Amazon Cloud Services.
Thirdly, the protection model and measures to be applied within the context of the new computing/protection paradigm is an important challenge. Do we protect the data?, the applications?, and how do we measure protection? In this last area, we clearly understand that measuring how many infected files are detected by an Anti-Malware product is a very limiting and not very practical measure. We encourage authors to propose innovative solutions to this problem, and the set of associate metrics to be used. We encourage authors to submit manuscripts that addresses issues in each one of these new research directions.
Finally, while deservedly significant attention has been, and should continue to be devoted, to the research areas described above, another critical problem deserves our attention at this juncture. Namely, the impact on both the strategies and tactics that unlimited resources bring to both the attackers and defendants. For example, a classic approach contemplated by defendants in the past, has been that of storing meta data information of suspicious but seemly unrelated events in both time and space. The basic idea is to continuously run correlation analysis on such events. This approach is prohibitively expensive in terms of storage. Nevertheless, if storage is both unlimited and elastic, as provided by the cloud, then, perhaps such an approach is not only theoretically, but practically, feasible. Contributions that explore this shift in thinking are welcomed.
Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
? Theoretical aspects and new directions in Malware related research, specifically, manuscripts that explore the concepts of “Trust Domains” that do not have or desire physical boundaries
? Smartphone Malware, protecting a new class of end-points with hyper-mobility
? Analysis and measurements of real malware incidents
? Worms, viruses and other propagating Malware
? Spyware, keystroke loggers, information theft Malware
? Honeypots and other sample collection methodologies
? Botnet attacks, detection/tracking and defense
? Code reverse engineering tools and practices
? Malware performance, analysis and capture tools
? Anti-spam and anti-phishing techniques and practices
? Legal aspects of unwanted software use
? Malware and its impact in social networking and cloud computing
? Malware in wireless mobile devices
Publication
The proceedings of the conference will be published in printed, and DVD, form and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. In addition, the Conference’s Technical Program Committee will select one manuscript as a recipient of the “Best Paper Award”. The Best Paper Award author, together with the authors of a few selected manuscripts from the conference, will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Computer Security.
Paper Submission Information
Papers should be submitted through EDAS system at:
http://www.edas.info/
Submitted manuscripts must be 10-point font size, and should not exceed 8 single-spaced pages in length, including the abstract, figures, and references. Authors whose manuscript exceeds the 8 page limit may be allowed to include two additional pages for an extra charge. However, under no circumstances shall a submitted manuscript exceed the 10 page limit. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
Additional Information:
For more information on Malware 2014 or if you are interested in contributing to the organization of the conference please contact Dr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio, General Program Chair, Malware 2014 at fcco-AT-brandeis.edu or visit our web site www.malwareconference.org. For information concerning submission of an original manuscript to the conference, please contact the Technical Program Committee Chairs (TPC), Dr. Anthony Arrott, Trends Micro, USA - mailto:mAnthony_Arrott-AT-trendmicro.com, and Prof. Arun Lakhoita, Director of CajunBot Lab, University of Louisiana at Lafayette - mailto:arun-AT-louisiana.edu.
Malware 2013 Program Committee
General Program Chair:
? Dr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio, WSSRL and Brandeis University, USA
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:
? Dr. Anthony Arrott, Trend Micro, USA
? Prof. Arun Lakhoita, Director of CajunBot Lab, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Technical Program Committee Members :
? Dr. Davidson Boccardo, Inmetro, Brazil
? Dr. Guillaume.Bonfante, LORIA, France
? Mr. Pierre-Marc Bureau, ESET, CANADA
? Dr. Andreas Clemente, Germany
? Dr. Seyit A. Camtepe, Technische Universität Berlin
? Prof. José M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
? Mr. Richard Ford, Pyratech Security Systems, Inc, USA
? Dr. Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy Grand-Est, France
? Mr. Brian Hay, Security Works, USA
? Prof. Xuxian Jiang, North Carolina State University, USA
? Mr. Bill McGee, Trend Mcro, USA
? Prof. Jean-Yves Marion, Nancy Université, France, TPC
? Mr. Rachit Mathur, McAfee, USA
? Dr. Jose Andres Morales, CERT - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
? Dr. Kara Nance, Security Works, USA
? Dr. Jose Nazario, Invincea, Inc, USA
? Prf. Mark Stamp - San Jose State University, USA
? Prof. Natalia Stakhanova, University of South Alabama
? Prof. Andrew Walenstein, Lafayette University, USA
? Mr. Jeff Williams, Microsoft, USA
? Prof. Cliff C. Zou (Changchun Zou), University Central Florida, USA
Malware 2013 Keynote, Panels & Tutorials :
? Mr. Neil Rubenking, President & CEO, AppNeta, Inc., USA
? Vic Phatak - NSS Labs
Local Conference Chair
? Prof. Jose Ortiz, Computer Science, Universidad de Puerto Rico, USA
? Prof. Amir H. Chinaei, ECE Department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, USA
? Mr. Juan Torres, PRSS Developer Services Manager at Microsoft, USA.