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Upcoming APWG Meetings

The APWG holds a General Meeting each year in the fall and usually two or three additional events. Below are the current events scheduled:

  • General Meeting, October 14 & 15, 2008 - Atlanta, GA

    At this two-day members-only meeting, the APWG will examine crimeware's evolution, the roles of Registrars, Registries and DNS in managing phishing attacks, public health approaches to managing the Botnet scourge, behavioral vulnerabilities and human factors that contribute to phishing's success as well as breaking news on Counter-eCrime tools and resources.
     

  • eCrime Researchers Summit 2008, October 14, 15 & 16, 2008 - Atlanta, GA

    eCrime '08 will bring together academic researchers, security practitioners, and law enforcement to discuss all aspects of electronic crime and ways to combat it, including:

    • Phishing, pharming, click-fraud, crimeware, extortion and emerging attacks.
    • Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of fraud and fraud prevention.
    • Techniques to assess the risks and yields of attacks and the success rates of countermeasures.
    • Delivery techniques, including spam, voice mail and rank manipulation; and countermeasures.
    • Spoofing of different types, and applications to fraud.
    • Techniques to avoid detection, tracking and takedown; and ways to block such techniques.
    • Honeypot design, data mining, and forensic aspects of fraud prevention.
    • Design and evaluation of user interfaces in the context of fraud and network security.
    • Best practices related to digital forensics tools and techniques, investigative procedures, and evidence acquisition, handling and preservation.
       
  • Counter-eCrime Operations Summit 2009, May 12, 13 & 14, 2009 - Barcelona, Spain

    The third annual Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS III) in Barcelona will engage questions of operational challenges and the development of common resources for the first responders and forensic professionals who protect consumers and enterprises from the ecrime threat every day. Presenters will proffer case studies of national and regional economies under attack, narratives of successful trans-national forensic cooperation as well as models for cooperation and unified response against ecrime and data resources for forensic applications.
     
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Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Every year the lineup of presentations helps define the security headlines for the following year and 2008 will be no exception.

Fall 2008 Critical Infrastructure Protection Congress, October 6-8 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel in Las Vegas.

The annual Critical Infrastructure Protection Congress is a cross-sector information-sharing event that has evolved from within the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) community. The 2008 event is presented by the ISAC Council (representing 11 critical infrastructure sectors), InfraGard (the FBI’s public and private sector information-sharing association), and the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security (PCIS).

The 2008 theme, “Risk 2.0: Next-Generation Threats, Challenges & Opportunities,” highlights the security issues associated with new technologies and applications that affect all critical infrastructures.

The Fall 2008 Congress continues to execute our goal of delivering key primary learning objectives to our attendees:

Understand the importance of sharing information across different sectors and the impact each sector has on the resilience of the other sectors.
Learn how information security, physical security and crisis management are converging as a result of blended threats.
Gain practical insights on how to improve enterprise preparedness against risks, threats and incidents involving multiple disciplines.
Acquire knowledge that can be applied to your everyday business practices to reduce risk and better protect your organization.

See the following link for more detailed information about this event:
http://www.cip2008.com.


 

Sri Lanka CERT, in conjunction with the Annual International IT Conference (IITC) and Infotel Exhibition, is proud to present the 1st Sri Lanka Cyber Security Week. SLCERT aims to achieve several objectives through this programme:

  • Raise awareness of Information Security among the population effectively by reaching a wider audience
  • Build confidence in existing & emerging online services, especially Citizen Services
  • Raise awareness of Computer crime & other Electronic legislation
  • Encourage local organizations to establish links with overseas peers to pursue Information Security related endeavours
  • Strengthening of overall Information Security posture in Sri Lanka by application of knowledge gained during the programme
     
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