From: Erik Hitipeuw
To:
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:34:45 +0200
Subject: Lecture Dr. Arun Lakhotia  [REMINDER]

Dear all,

I send you the following announcement and invitation on behalf of prof.
dr. Paul Klint


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You are cordially invited to the following lecture:

Title: Using term rewriting and all that for detecting metamorphic malware

Speaker: Dr. Arun Lakhotia (Univ. of Louisiana)

Date: Friday, October 13 2006

Time: 11:00

Venue: Instituut voor Informatica, Science Park Amsterdam,
Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam

Room: F0.13

For a map and details see:
http://www.science.uva.nl/organisatie/object.cfm/objectid=FDF073CD-26E8-453C-88CCAB50AEE78065


Abstract:
Program analysis techniques, including term rewriting, have been
invented and improved in the context of developing tools that aid
programmers, such as compilers. These techniques are now being called
upon to aid security analysts, this time to sniff out malicious programs.

We have been investigating the use of program analysis techniques for
the detection of metamorphic malware, malicious programs that transform
themselves as they propagate. In this talk we will present our results
of using term rewriting techniques to convert a metamorphic instance to
its normal form. The experience gives some insight in new issues that
come up with term rewriting and other analysis techniques are applied on
malicious programs.

About the speaker:
Dr. Arun Lakhotia is a Professor of Computer Science at the Center for
Advanced Computer Studies in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
His research interest includes developing technologies to detect and
defend against malware. His research has led to new ways to counter
metamorphic viruses, to deobfuscate code, and to detect new viruses by
comparing their code with previously known viruses. Dr. Lakhotia teaches
a course on malware analysis and has given tutorial on the subject in
IEEE Working Conference in Reverse Engineering. He is the recipient of
the 2004 Louisiana Governor's University Technology Leader of the Year
award.




-- 
Erik Hitipeuw,
Informatics Institute
Computing, Systems architecture,
Programming Laboratory [CSP Lab]
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