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!!!EXTENSION DEADLINE TO 10th OF MARCH (AoE)!!!
IEEE Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2019)
Web site: https://wacco-workshop.eu
Twitter: https://twitter.com/waccoworkshop
The first Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2019) will be held jointly with the 2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy in Stockholm, Sweden, on the 20th of June 2019.
The workshop welcomes mono-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary submissions on quantitative and qualitative analyses of cyber-crime operations; fully in scope to the Workshop are contributions focussing on the technical, criminological, psychological, economic, and law dimensions of cybercrime.
The full CfP and the Workshop aim and motivation are listed below and on the website: https://wacco-workshop.eu
Submission will be open until the 10th of March 2019 (EXTENDED).
We are looking forward to receiving your submissions!
The WACCO organizers
**** Aim and motivation ****
The emergence and commoditization of cyber-criminal activities calls for new empirical methods, measures, and technologies to quantify and understand offender operations across all forms of cyber-crime: from malware engineering and attack delivery, to running underground operations trading illegal goods such as drugs and illegal pornography, to spreading disinformation and planning (cyber-)terrorism operations. Without appropriate scientific measures of cyber-offender and attacker operations, capabilities, and resources, it remains impossible to derive sound policies, strategies and technologies that appropriately address realistic and evidence-based attacker and offender models.
*** Call for Papers ****
WACCO 2019 calls for all contributions aiming at providing methods, measures, metrics, and technologies or tools to quantitatively or qualitatively evaluate cyber-offenders and attackers from technical and non-technical angles. The workshop invites contributions from, but not limited to, the fields of computer science and computer security, criminology, psychology, law, and economics addressing this issue.
**** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ****
Empirical studies on attacker operations and communities
Novel methods to perform attacker measurements at scale across several communities
Cooperation and trust as a source of attackers' effectiveness
Attackers' skill set
Attackers' operational security
Measuring the spread of false information campaigns on social media
Quantitative and qualitative methods to measure, track, and counter cybercrime
Cybercrime measurement and networks
Cybercrime policy
Economics of cybercrime
Profiling of cybercriminals
Security metric design and evaluation
Security patch measurement
Statistical exploration and prediction of security incidents
Open Source Intelligence and digital footprints
**** Submissions ****
Papers should be written in English and formatted following the IEEE guidelines for Euro S&P 2019 reported at https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2019/cfp.php.
WACCO welcomes full as well as position papers for submission. Length limits are of 10 pages and 4 pages respectively. Position papers should present new open and interesting questions that the community should address or open questions that past research papers have not yet addressed. We expect position papers to be presented in panels or poster-platform sessions.
Papers should be fully anonymized before review: author names or affiliations may not appear or be revealed in the text. Previous work of the authors should be referred to the third person. In the unusual case that an anonymous reference is not possible, the authors should blind the reference (e.g. "[x] Blinded citation to preserve submission anonymity"). Papers that are not properly anonymized may be desk rejected.
All papers will be published by IEEE CS and posted on the IEEE digital libraries. At least an author for each accepted paper is expected to present their paper at the workshop.
Submissions will be handled through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wacco2019
**** Important Dates (all deadlines are AeO) ****
Paper Submissions Due: March 10, 2019 11:59 pm (EXTENDED)
Acceptance Notice to Authors: April 5, 2019
Camera ready for accepted papers: April 22, 2019
IEEE EuroS&P: June 17-19, 2019
Workshop: June 20, 2019
**** Program Committee Co-Chairs ****
Luca Allodi, Eindhoven University of Technology
Serge Egelman, University of California, Berkeley
Alice Hutchings, University of Cambridge
Fabio Massacci, University of Trento
Marie Vasek, University of New Mexico
**** Program Committee ****
Sadia Afroz, UC Berkeley
Maria Bada, University of Cambridge
Benoît Dupont, University of Montreal
Carlos Ganan, Delft University of Technology
Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University
Ralph Holz, The University of Sydney
Chris Kanich, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rutger Leukfeldt, NSCR
Rebekah Overdorf, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Sergio Pastrana, Carlos III University of Madrid
Sasha Romanosky, RAND
Will Scott, University of Michigan
Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, Purdue University
Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University
Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, ICANN
Tom Van Goethem, KU Leuven
Gang Wang, Virginia Tech
Victoria Wang, University of Portsmouth
Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dmitry Zhdanov, Georgia State University
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Dmitry Zhdanov
Assistant Professor
Georgia State University
Atlanta GA
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