Call for Participation: Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM 2005)

Thank you to Angelos D. Keromytis for passing this on.

In the last several years, Internet-wide infectious epidemics have emerged as one of the leading threats to information security and service availability. The vehicles for these outbreaks, malicious codes called "worms", take advantage of the combination of software monocultures and the uncontrolled Internet communication model to quickly compromise large numbers of hosts. Such worms are increasingly being used as delivery mechanisms for various types of malicious payloads, including remote-controlled "zombies", spyware and botnets. Recent incidents have also reveals the use of new propagation techniques as well as the use of worms to target small user communities or specific applications. Current operational practices have not been able to manage these threats effectively.

WORM 2005 is the 3rd in a series of one-day annual workshops focusing on the problem of self-propagating malicious programs. The  workshop brings together researchers and security practitioners from academia, industry and the government. WORM will be held in conjunction with the ACM CCS conference, on November 11, 2005 at George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax campus.

The workshop program, which consists of a mix of invited talks and presentations of refereed papers, can also be found at:
      http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/worm05/worm-prog.html

The WORM 2005 web page:
      http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/worm05

WORM is sponsored by ACM SIGSAC with contributions from DARPA.