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15th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) Brings Together Internet Security Experts From Around the Globe
RESTON, VA, USA and GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - 11 February 2008 - The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) is now underway in San Diego, California.
The NDSS, supported by the Internet Society, now in its 15th year, is one of the longest-running Internet security conferences on the calendar, drawing leading experts, researchers, and technologists from around the globe to share experience and analysis of security issues in networks and distributed systems.
Gary McGraw presents the NDSS'08 keynote address
The significance of NDSS is reflected by the caliber of the symposium sponsors, led by the US National Security Agency and including Afilias, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Google, Microsoft Research, the Dartmouth College Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), and IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.
"NDSS'08 brings together innovative and forward-thinking experts to present papers on a wide range of real-world security scenarios for the Internet," explains Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society.
NDSS'08 features a keynote address by Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital, Inc, a discussion on virtualization and security by a panel of industry experts, and more than 20 peer-reviewed papers by security researchers from leading universities and companies around the globe.
"These are some of the brightest minds in their fields, focusing on the practical aspects of network and distributed system security," says Doug Szajda, General Symposium Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Richmond.
"The topics covered emphasize real-world system design and implementation, encouraging and enabling the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technology."
Participants from 13 countries have gathered for a three-day program of papers and discussions on topics ranging from large scale systems, collaborative systems, privacy, software hardening, reverse engineering, intrusion prevention, and malware.
Attendees from 13 countries gather for NDSS'08
NDSS'08 is being held at The Dana on Mission Bay, San Diego, 10-13 February 2008. Full program and registration details are available at:
Update 15 February 2008 - NDSS presentation on DNS abuse reported widely
A presentation delivered at NDSS'08, detailing the growing incidence of malicious DNS activity, has received widespread media coverage.
The presentation, Corrupted DNS Resolution Paths: The Rise of a Malicious Resolution Authority, by David Dagon, Chris Lee, and Wenke Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, Niels Provos, Google Inc) documents a growing form of attack whereby "victims are forced to use rogue DNS servers for all resolution".
The authors of this peer-reviewed paper studied DNS activity, found "dozens of viruses that corrupt resolution paths, and noted that hundreds of URLs discovered per week performed drive-by alterations of host DNS settings".
The presentation drew the attention of the Asociated Press, whose report was republished in a wide range of publications, including The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, MSNBC, CNNMoney, London South East News, and many others.
About the Internet Society
The Internet Society is an independent international nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, and with more than 80 chapters worldwide, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.
For further details
Mark Thalhimer
Director of Communications and Public Relations,
Internet Society
E-mail: thalhimer@isoc.org
Telephone: +1 703 326 9880 x130
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Reston, VA 20190-5108
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Internet Society: www.isoc.org
