WACCO 2019: 1st Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations Held Jointly with IEEE EuroS&P 2019 Stockholm, Sweden, June 20, 2019 |
Conference website | http://wacco-workshop.eu |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wacco2019 |
Submission deadline | February 25, 2019 |
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
Important Dates
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE = UTC-12h).
Paper Submissions Due | February 25, 2019 |
Acceptance Notice to Authors | April 5, 2019 |
Camera ready for accepted papers | April 22, 2019 |
Workshop | June 20, 2019 |
Submission
Papers should be written in English and formatted following the IEEE guidelines for Euro S&P 2019 reported here. 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.
Anonymous submissions
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.
Publications
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.
Submission Site
Please submit your submission through EasyChair here.