[Chapter-delegates] Press Release on NDSS'09 Event

[Greg Wood]

Hello,

For your information, here is a news release on the ISOC-organized  
NDSS'09 event, which we shall be issuing shortly.

Sincerely,
-Greg

IMPROVED DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) SECURITY AND MALWARE DETECTION  
FEATURED AT INTERNET SECURITY SYMPOSIUM

Presentations on improved tools and practices on critical network  
security fronts
to be featured at NDSS'09

RESTON, Va. USA and Geneva, Switzerland--28 January 2009--Leaders in  
Internet security from industry and research are scheduled to gather  
8-11 February at the 16th Annual Network & Distributed System Security  
Symposium (NDSS'09) in San Diego, California. The event, organized by  
the Internet Society, will bring the global Internet community  
together to learn about and discuss cutting-edge advances in the  
science and application of network and distributed systems security.

Presentations will include the paper "Recursive DNS Architectures and  
Vulnerability Implications" byDavid Dagon, Manos Antonakakis, Xiapu  
Luo, Christopher P. Lee and Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of  
Technology; and Kevin Day. Their research, which identified a security  
weakness in the way a common Domain Name Server (DNS) was often  
deployed, led to a software tool that allows developers and deployers  
to assess the security implications of various options for deploying  
DNS.

Also on the NDSS'09 program is the paper "Scalable, Behavior-Based  
Malware Clustering" by Ulrich Bayer, Paolo Milani Comparetti and  
Clemens Hlauschek, Technical University Vienna; Christopher Kruegel,  
University of California Santa Barbara; and Engin Kirda, Institute  
Eurecom. Their work led to a novel approach for tracking and analyzing  
the 1000s of versions of malicious code that emerge everyday--a volume  
that has swamped previous approaches used by anti-virus companies and  
programs.

In addition to twenty peer-reviewed papers, featured presentations  
will include security expert Ivan Arce, CTO and Co-Founder, Core  
Security Technologies, and Brian Chess, chief scientist at Fortify  
Software.

Additional information and online registration is available at:

http://www.isoc.org/ndss09/

About the Internet Society
The Internet Society is an international, non-profit organisation  
founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards,  
education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva,  
Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development,  
evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of people  
throughout the world.

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