Malware Forensics

Hal Berghel

University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA

Date and time: 11.30am-12.30pm, Friday 23rd January, 2004

Venue: 12.13.03

Chair: Tony Montgomery

Abstract:

Did you ever wonder how viruses, worms and trojan horses are written? Have you wondered how incident response handlers figure out how to block malware? Have you wondered how Semantic and other firewall/antivirus companies create signatures to detect malware?

Come to hear this talk as the lecturer explains how this all works.

About the speaker:

Dr. Berghel is currently Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He has held a variety of research and administrative positions in industry and academia during his twenty-five year career in computing. His current research focuses on Internet and Web technologies, interactive and participatory computing environments, including the design of virtual communities, and electronic information management. His research work appears frequently in a variety of scientific and technical venues, and his columns, editorials, and articles appear regularly in such publications as Computer, the Communications of the ACM, and Networker.

Berghel chairs the ACM Technology Outreach Program and Electronic Communities Committees, and serves on the ACM Publications Board as well as Vice Chair of the ACM Member Activities Board. Berghel also publishes extensively on cyberspace in a wide variety of scholarly publications, and has designed or developed countless interactive Websites for applications as diverse as the World Wide Web Test Pattern, networked gaming, digital ballot boxes, interactive CGI programming support, digital publications, the ACM's Web-based Graduate Assistantship Directory, and the new ACM Interactive Timeline of Computing Website, to name but a few.

Berghel has been selected as ACM Outstanding Lecturer of the Year three times (1996, 1997 and 1998), and has also been twice selected as an IEEE Distinguished Visitor on behalf of the IEEE Computer Society (1995-8 and 1998-2001). His many awards and recognition's include the 1996 ACM Distinguished Service Award and induction as both Fellow of the ACM and Fellow of the IEEE.

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