DIMVA 2008 (http://www.dimva.org/dimva2008/) Fifth Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment DIMVA 2008, Paris, France, July 10-11, 2008. (Submissions due February 4, 2008). The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in intrusion detection, malware detection, and vulnerability assessment. Each year DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group Security - Intrusion Detection and Response of the German Informatics Society (GI). The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. DIMVA's scope includes, but is not restricted to the following areas: * Intrusion Detection + Approaches + Implementations + Prevention and response + Result correlation + Evaluation + Potentials and limitations + Operational experiences + Evasion and other attacks + Legal and social aspects * Malware + Techniques + Detection + Prevention and containment + Evaluation + Trends and upcoming risks + Forensics and recovery * Vulnerability Assessment + Vulnerabilities + Vulnerability detection + Vulnerability prevention + Classification and evaluation DIMVA particularly encourages papers that discuss the integration of intrusion, malware, and vulnerability detection in large-scale operational communication networks. For more information - see http://www.dimva.org/dimva2008/