Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology for Asia Pacific will be giving
the keynote address at the CARO event.
Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, announced
that Paul Ducklin,
Head of Technology for Asia Pacific, has been selected to give the
keynote address at the 2nd International CARO Workshop. CARO, the
Computer Anti-Virus Researchers' Organization, is meeting on 1-2
May in The Netherlands to discuss the technical issues surrounding
malware packers, decryptors and obfuscators.
"These days, packing and obfuscation tools, even those commonly
and unashamedly associated with malware, are frequently used by
apparently-legitimate software vendors. Programming techniques
which greatly benefit malicious code are thoughtlessly copied by
legitimate users, even though any number of alternatives might be
available," said Paul
Ducklin, head of technology asia pacific at Sophos. "Security
professionals alone cannot fix this. The industry as a whole needs
to go through a continuous, iterative process of identifying
programming practices which can be considered lost to cybercrime;
describing safer replacement techniques; and vigorously insisting
that coders, vendors, suppliers, ISPs and the like make the switch
from bad to good."
Ducklin is considered one of the world's leading virus experts
and has presented at various industry events including: Virus
Bulletin, ICSA and AVAR conferences. He has also written many
articles on the virus threat and is a respected industry
commentator.
Separately, on Friday 2 May at 15:45, SophosLabs malware expert
Boris Lau will be presenting his paper "Dealing with virtualization
packers".
"Virtualization packers translate the original code of a malware
sample into their own unique set of instructions which is then
interpreted by the embedded virtual machine. Unpacking samples
protected by a virtualization packer is very expensive in terms of
both analysis effort and the efficiency of unpacking," explained
Lau. "My paper explores a new technique to deobfuscate
virtualization packers to achieve semi-automated analysis of
samples."
For more information on the 2nd International CARO Workshop,
please visit: www.datasecurity-event.com
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