ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
                 4th International Conference on Malicious and
                         Unwanted Software (Malware 2009)
                 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 13-14, 2009

OVERVIEW

The conference is designed to bring together experts from industry,
academia, and government to present and discuss the latest advances
and discoveries in the field malicious and unwanted software, the
techniques, economics and legal issues behind their use, and the
methods to detect and control them.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due:            June 14th, 2009 23:59:59 EST
Notification of acceptance: July 26th 2009
Final papers due:           August 16th, 2009

TOPICS
The organizers solicit original contributions addressing the issues
facing the anti-malware community:

(1) Case studies based on recent malware events, describing large-scale
responses strategies used, tools and techniques employed, quantitative
measurements used and their interpretation,...

(2) Traditional research contributions of a theoretical nature
(including modeling, simulations,...) or of a more practical nature
(including in- vitro laboratory experiments, tool and technique
development,...)

Contributions of both types, case studies and research, addressing one
of following non-exclusive list of topics are equally welcome:

- Infection vectors:                  - Malware detection
   worms, virus, spam                 - Vulnerability prevention
- Information theft:                  - Malware economy
     spyware, rootkits                - Phishing and frauds
- Botnets: analysis + economics       - Human aspects: propagation
- Collection methodologies:           - Forensics and law enforcement
     Honeypots, Honeyclients          - Malware analysis and
- Case studies:                            reverse-engineering
     analysis and measurements        - Arms race:
- National and international laws          malware vs. anti-malware     

SUBMISSION

Submitted manuscripts must have at least 10-point font size, and
should not exceed 8 single-spaced pages in length, including the
abstract, figures, and references, formatted in two columns. Only
original papers, unpublished or submitted for publication, can be
submitted. All submissions will be reviewed by experts.

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (paper
and CD) that will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Two
extra pages (10 pages) would be allowed for an extra charge. Thus, the
IEEE Templates for Conference Proceedings will have to be used for the
final version.  Selected papers will be published in a special issue
of the Journal of Computer Virology, published by Springer. These
extended papers will undergo a separate review process.


GENERAL CHAIR
Fernando C. Colon Osorio   Wireless Systems Security Lab

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
JosÈ Fernandez      Ecole Polytechnique  de MontrÈal
Jose Nazario        Arbor Networks

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Saeed Abu-Nimeh     Websense Security Labs
John Aycock         University of Calgary
Eric Filiol         Ecole superieure et d'application des transmissions
Jason Geffner       Next Generation Security Software
Vitaly Kamluk       Kaspersky Lab
Christopher Kruegel UC Santa Barbara
Arun Lakhotia       University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Jean-Yves Marion    Ecole Nationale Polytechnique de Lorraine
Charles Miller      Security Evaluator
Phil Porras         SRI International
Jean-Marc Robert    Ecole de technologie superieure
Anil Somayaji       Carleton University
Shambhu Upadhyaya   SUNY Buffalo
Thomas Vinoo        McAfee Avert Labs
Vinod Yagneswaran   SRI International
Bojan Zdrnja        University of Auckland
Cliff Zou           University of Central Florida

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CO-CHAIRS
JosÈ Fernandez      Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Jean-Marc Robert    Ecole de technologie superieure

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Industrial:
Pierre-Marc Bureau  ESET†
Academic:
Jean-Yves Marion    Ecole Nationale Polytechnique de Lorraine

SPONSORSHIP
The 4th International Conference on Malicious Software and Unwanted
Software (MALWARE í09) is held with technical sponsorship from
IEEE.

For more information and instructions go to http://isiom.wssrl.org