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| Upcoming APWG Meetings |
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The APWG holds a General Meeting each year in the fall and usually two or three additional events. Below are the current events scheduled:
- General Meeting, October 14 & 15, 2008 - Atlanta, GA
At this two-day members-only meeting, the APWG will examine crimeware's evolution, the roles of Registrars, Registries and DNS in managing phishing attacks, public health approaches to managing the Botnet scourge, behavioral vulnerabilities and human factors that contribute to phishing's success as well as breaking news on Counter-eCrime tools and resources.
- eCrime Researchers Summit 2008, October 14, 15 & 16, 2008 - Atlanta, GA
eCrime '08 will bring together academic researchers, security
practitioners, and law enforcement to discuss all aspects of
electronic crime and ways to combat it, including:
- Phishing, pharming, click-fraud, crimeware, extortion and emerging attacks.
- Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of fraud and fraud prevention.
- Techniques to assess the risks and yields of attacks and the success rates of countermeasures.
- Delivery techniques, including spam, voice mail and rank manipulation; and countermeasures.
- Spoofing of different types, and applications to fraud.
- Techniques to avoid detection, tracking and takedown; and ways to block such techniques.
- Honeypot design, data mining, and forensic aspects of fraud prevention.
- Design and evaluation of user interfaces in the context of fraud
and network security.
- Best practices related to digital forensics tools and techniques, investigative procedures, and evidence acquisition, handling and preservation.
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FIRST conferences promote worldwide coordination and cooperation among Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs). The conference provides a forum for sharing goals, ideas, and information on how to improve global computer security. This years program, Crossing Borders: Towards Globalization of Security, will look at how can Internet security answer these challenges and transform itself technically, politically, legally and efficiently into a truly global force for good.

Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Every year the lineup of presentations helps define the security headlines for the following year and 2008 will be no exception.
Sri Lanka CERT, in conjunction with the Annual International IT Conference (IITC) and Infotel Exhibition, is proud to present the 1st Sri Lanka Cyber Security Week. SLCERT aims to achieve several objectives through this programme:
- Raise awareness of Information Security among the population effectively by reaching a wider audience
- Build confidence in existing & emerging online services, especially Citizen Services
- Raise awareness of Computer crime & other Electronic legislation
- Encourage local organizations to establish links with overseas peers to pursue Information Security related endeavours
- Strengthening of overall Information Security posture in Sri Lanka by application of knowledge gained during the programme
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| Previous APWG Events And Meetings |
- Counter-eCrime Operations Summit, May 26 & 27, 2008
- General Meeting, October 2-3, 2007
- eCrime Researchers Conference, October 4-5, 2007
- Counter-eCrime Operations Summit, May 30 - May 31 2007
- November 14 & 15, 2006, APWG Fall General Meeting, Orlando, Florida
- November 16 & 17, 2006, APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, Orlando, Florida
- June 2006, APWG Summer General Meeting in Brussels, Belgium
- April 18, 2006, APWG 2006 Spring General Meeting in Chicago, IL, US
- November 8-10, 2005. APWG General Meeting & SuperSummit in Montreal, Canada
- May 31 & June 1, 2005. General Meeting in San Jose, CA
- London, UK (April 19, 2005)
- Washington D.C. (Sept 28 and 29, 2004)
- San Francisco, California. (April 5,2004)
- New York City (Jan 29, 2004)
- London, U.K. (Feb 3, 2004)
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