Conference Program

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EC2ND 2011 - Day 1
(6 September, 2011)
09:30-10:15Registration & Coffee
10:15-10:30Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:30-11:30Paper Session 1
A Rose by Any Other Name or an Insane Root? Adventures in Name Resolution
Hayawardh Vijayakumar, Joshua Schiffman and Trent Jaeger
On Botnets that use DNS for Command and Control
Christian J. Dietrich, Christian Rossow, Felix C. Freiling, Herbert Bos, Maarten van Steen and Norbert Pohlmann
11:30-13:00Break
13:00-14:30Paper Session 2
dead.drop: URL-based Stealthy Messaging
Georgios Kontaxis, Iasonas Polakis, Michalis Polychronakis and Evangelos P. Markatos
Adaptive Detection of Covert Communication in HTTP Requests
Guido Schwenk and Konrad Rieck
IRILD: an Information Retrieval based method for Information Leak Detection
Eleni Gessiou, Quang Hieu Vu and Sotiris Ioannidis
14:30-15:00Coffee
15:00-17:00Student Session
The Anti-Social Behavior of Spam
Farnaz Moradi (Chalmers)
Location Privacy: user-centric threat analysis
Benjamin Greschbach (KTH)
Mitigating Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks: Application-defense and Network-defense Methods
Zhang Fu (Chalmers)
CAPTCHuring Automated (Smart)Phone Attacks
Iasonas Polakis (FORTH)
Security in wireless sensor networks
Andreas Larsson (Chalmers)
18:45Meeting at ferry "Lilla Bommens Hamn" http://g.co/maps/yw59
19:00Ferry to restaurant
19:20Restaurant River Cafe
22:00Ferry home back to "Lilla Bommens Hamn"

EC2ND 2011 - Day 2
(7 September, 2011)
09:30-10:30 Keynote: A way to more secure SCADA systems
Gunnar Björkman (ABB Germany and project coordinator for EU/FP7 VIKING)
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-11:30 New challenges in research for accident avoidance
Anna Nilsson-Ehle (Director for the Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers)
11:30-13:00 Panel: Security Issues in the Smart Grid
  • Gitte Bergknut (E.ON Regional Unit Nordic Information Security Manager, M.Sc. Informatic, CISA)
  • Gunnar Björkman (ABB Germany and project coordinator for EU/FP7 VIKING)
  • Göran Ericsson (R&D manager of Svenska Kraftnät, the Swedish national grid)
  • Erik Z. Johansson (ABB Ventyx)
  • Christopher Saunders (assistant professor, Chalmers)
  • Stefano Zanero (assistant professor, Politecnico di Milano)
13:00-14:30Break
14:30-15:00 Open Development of Societal Security Capabilities
Bo Norrhem (Programme Manager of Lindholmen Science Park)
15:00-16:00Paper Session 3
MELISSA: Towards Automated Detection of Undesirable User Actions in Critical Infrastructures
Dina Hadžiosmanović, Damiano Bolzoni, Pieter Hartel and Sandro Etalle
Remote control of smart meters: friend or foe?
Mihai Costache, Valentin Tudor, Magnus Almgren, Marina Papatriantafilou and Christopher Saunders
16:00Closing Remarks