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Organizers:
Paul A. Watters, University of Ballarat and Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University

CTC-2009 is a workshop held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~atc09/. The conference is held on 7-10 July 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.

Accepted Papers:

A Trust Enhanced Email Application using Trusted Computing
Julian Jang, Australia   

Data Loss in the British Government: A Bounty of Credentials for Organised Crime
Paul Watters, Australia  

The Case for a Consistent Cyberscam Classification Framework (CCCF)
Amber Stabek, Simon Brown and Paul Watters, Australia   

Detecting Phishing Emails Using Hybrid Features
Liping Ma, Bahadorrezda Ofoghi, Paul Watters and Simon Brown, Australia   

Using differencing to increase distinctiveness for phishing website clustering
Robert Layton and Paul Watters, Australia   

A Preliminary Profiling of Internet Money Mules: An Australian Perspective
Manuel Aston, Stephen McCombie, Ben Reardon and Paul Watters, Australia

Understanding the contruction mechanism of botnets
Xuefeng Li, Haixin Duan and Wu Liu, China  

IPGroupRep: A Novel Reputation based System for Anti-Spam
Hong Zhang, Haixin Duan, Wu Liu and Jianping Wu, China  

H6Proxy: ICMPv6 Weakness Analysis and Implementation of IPv6 Attacking Test Proxy
Wu Liu, China

Spam and Social Effects
Man Qi, UK


Objectives
Cybercrime continues to be a growth industry, assisted by a combination of technical factors, such as insecure hardware and software platforms, and psychological factors, such as user error or naivety. The objective of this workshop is to bring together two distinct groups to encourage further collaboration - those who are working on researching cybercrime activity, such as phishing and malware, and those who are working on technical countermeasures.

The scope of the workshop is reasonably narrow, to ensure a complementary match between capability and need. Papers should either be empirically or rationally based explorations of problems in cybercrime, or propose solutions and/or countermeasures to the most pressing cybercrimes.

Example topic areas on the cybercrime theme might include:

Phishing, SPAM

Malware, Botnets

Scams, including advance fee fraud, romance scams etc

Forensic means to classify e-mail messages or web pages soliciting cybercrime or providing a vector for attack

Forensic means to cluster and identify different groups or modus operandi arising from distinct "kits"
For the countermeasures side, topic areas might include:

Anti-phishing

Anti-virus

Anti-rootkit

Anti-botnet

User education and/or psychological operations
A major theme of the event will be to plan future research interactions and relationships between industry and academia.

Submission (CLOSED)
All submissions are to be made using the Easychair system. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE (EI indexed). Selected papers, after extension and further revisions, will be published in a special issue of a prestigious journal.
Papers should be written using the IEEE CS style, 6 pages.

Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 February 2009 (CLOSED)
Paper Status Notification: 25 March 2009 (CLOSED) 
Camera-ready Due: 15 April 2009

Program Committee Members

Academic:
Professor Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University
Associate Professor Ray Hunt, Canterbury University
Associate Professor Paul Watters, University of Ballarat
Associate Professor Hank Wolfe, Otago University
Dr Liping Ma, University of Ballarat
Professor Wu Liu, Tsinghua University
Dr. Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University

Industry:
Mr. Simon Brown, Westpac
Mr. Richard Johnson, Westpac
Mr. Stephen McCombie, National Australia Bank
Ms. Megan O'Neill, IBM
Mr. Ben Reardon, National Australia Bank
Mr. Richard Martin, APACS
Mr. Cameron Woolfe, IBM
Commander Neil Gaughan, Australian Federal Police

Website Address
http://www.cybercrime.com.au/ctc09

Contact details
Email queries to ctc09@cybercrime.com.au