First published: 21st November 2015
The Association of Anti-virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) will hold their 18th conference on 2nd - 4th December, in Danang, Vietnam. The AVAR Conference has been held around the region, from Korea to Australia to India, but this will be the first time in Vietnam.
Many of the leading anti-virus researchers from around the world will be attending and speaking. The keynote speakers are Mikko Hyppönen, Dennis Batchelder and Righard Zwienenberg. Hyppönen will explain the only two problems to solve to secure our online future: Privacy and Security. Batchelder is the Director of Research for the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC). Zwienenberg will be discussing how cooperation between competing anti-virus companies has shaped the industry and how that cooperation should develop.
The speeches cover a broad range of technical areas, from Android (Igor Muttik and Jorge Blasco, Jan Sirmer and Ondrej David, Siegfried Rasthofer and Carlos Castillo), keyloggers (Pablo Atilio Ramos and Diego Perez Magallanes), Cloud (Philipp Wolf and Matthias Ollig, Siegfried Rasthofer and Carlos Castillo), Internet of Things and embedded devices (Maik Morgenstern, Peter Kálnai and Jaromír Hořejší), Ransomware (Samir Mody and Gregory Panakkal), Advanced Persistent Threats (Kalpesh Mantri and Yogesh Khedkar, Razor Huang, Ivan Macalintal & Hai-Tri C. Le) to Windows (Benjamin S. Rivera and RonJay Kristoffer R. Caragay, Vlad Craciun and Cristina Vatamanu).
More social issues are also covered. Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade will show the perils of Intelligence Brokerage, Hong Jia and Feiran Liu willo expose the Threat Intelligence behind “XcodeGhost”, Liu Zhao will report on new Social Engineering tricks, and Jean-Ian Boutin will explain the vulnerabilities of Russian accountants.
There will be a Gala Dinner on the first evening, and the AVAR Annual General Meeting will take place immediately after the close of the conference.