The eleventh Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) 2016,
http://apwg.org/apwg-events/ecrime2016/cfp ,
will be held between June 1-3, 2016
in Toronto, Canada.
eCrime 2016 consists of 3 days of keynote presentations, technical and
practical sessions, and interactive panels. This will allow for the
academic researchers, security practitioners, and law enforcement to
discuss and exchange ideas, experiences and lessons learnt in all
aspects of electronic crime and ways to combat it.
New to this conference is the introduction of two publication tracks
to help attract research covering applied, industrial cybercrime
research as well as applied and/or theoretical cybercrime academic
research. To further strengthen the confidence in each track, there
have been two managing chairs and committees appointed for reviewing
and selecting papers for each track of the cybercrime conference.
Important Dates: (11:59pm US EDT)
Full Papers registration and submission due: January 15th, 2016
Paper Notifications due: March 4th, 2016
Request for a stipend: March 13th, 2016
Camera ready due: April 8th, 2016
Conference: June 1st-3rd, 2016
Academic Track
Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
Economics of online crime
Measurement studies of underground economies
Models of e-crime
Return on investment of various types of crime such as phishing,
advanced fee fraud, running a botnet, etc.
Uncovering and disrupting online criminal collaboration and gangs
Security-related risk assessments
The risks and yields of attacks
Effectiveness of countermeasures
Metrics standards
Conventions in the establishment of tests of efficacy
Attack delivery strategies and countermeasures
Spam
DNS
Mobile Apps
Social engineering
Instant messaging
Web browser search manipulation
Malware
Detection
Identification of malware families
Polymorphic malware detection
Mobile malware
Techniques to circumvent detection and sandboxes
Security assessments of the mobile devices
Mobile App stores and ecosystems
Mobile App privacy
Risk prevention issues
Financial infrastructure of e-crime
Criminal payment processing options
Money laundering strategies
Use of crypto-currencies
Underground marketplaces
Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of fraud
and fraud prevention
Industrial Track
Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
Case studies of current attack methods
System and network intrusions
Phishing
Malware (rogue antivirus, botnets, ransomware, etcÂ…)
Spam
Pharming
Crimeware toolkits
Emerging threats to mobile devices
Open source intelligence
Data collection and correlation
Strategies and tools
Case studies of online advertising fraud
Click fraud
Malvertising
Cookie stuffing
Affiliate fraud
Case studies of large-scale take-downs
Coordinated botnet disruption
Phishing takedown
Bullet proof hosting services
Economics of online crime
Measurement studies of underground economies
Models of e-crime
Return on investment of various types of crime such as phishing,
advanced fee fraud, running a botnet, etc.
Uncovering and disrupting online criminal collaboration and gangs
Longitudinal study of eCrime related activities and their evolutions
Security assessments of the mobile devices
Mobile App stores and ecosystems
Mobile malware
Mobile App privacy
Risk prevention issues
Security-related risk assessments
The risks and yields of attacks
Effectiveness of countermeasures
Metrics standards
Conventions in the establishment of tests of efficacy
Accepted papers will be published in proceedings with IEEE. In
addition, cash awards will be given for the best paper overall and the
best student co-authored paper. A limited number of cash travel awards
will also be made to student authors of papers and posters.
Instructions for Authors
eCrime has adopted the IEEE publication format. Submissions should be
in English, in PDF format with all fonts embedded, formatted using the
the IEEE conference template, found here:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submissions
should include author names, affiliations and acknowledgments. They
should not exceed 12 letter-sized pages, not counting the bibliography
and appendices. Papers should begin with a title, abstract, and an
introduction that clearly summarizes the contributions of the paper at
a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Papers should contain
a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including
motivation, relevance to practical applications, and a clear
comparison with related work. Committee members are not required to
read appendices, and papers should be intelligible without
them. Submitted papers risk being rejected without consideration of
their merits if they do not follow all the above
guidelines. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that was
published elsewhere, or work that any of the authors has submitted in
parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings.
Authors will be asked to indicate whether their submissions should be
considered for the best student paper award; any paper co-authored by
a full-time student is eligible for this award.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be
presented at the conference. A limited number of stipends are
available to those unable to obtain funding to attend the
conference. Students whose papers are accepted and who will present
the paper themselves are given priority to receive such
assistance. Requests for stipends should be addressed to the general
chair after March 13.
Full papers have to be submitted via easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecrime2016. First, papers
have to be registered, then authors can upload their papers. A
successful submission can be viewed in EasyChair, and a confirmation
email is sent to the corresponding author. Please make sure you
receive that confirmation email when you submit, and follow the
directions in that email if you require any follow up.
Organizing Committee
General Chair: Brad Wardman, PayPal
Program Co-Chairs: Damon McCoy, NYU
Elie Burzstein, Google
Publication Chair:
Xuan Zhao, Cylance