Fortinet security experts to present at VB2009

At next week’s Virus Bulletin VB2009 conference in Geneva, four members of the FortiGuard Global Security Research Team will be among the experts sharing their expertise on the topic of anti-malware. This is the fourth consecutive year that members of Fortinet’s seasoned research team have been on the roster of the event, which is in its 19th year.

Only 38 of more than 160 proposals were selected by the VB2009 committee for this year’s conference program. That said, here are the presentations to check out:

• “Fighting cybercrime: technical, juridical and ethical challenges,” Wednesday, September 23, 4:20 p.m. Speaker: Guillaume Lovet, Threat Response senior manager.
• “‘I am not a numero!’: assessing global security threat levels,” Thursday, September 24, 10:40 a.m. Speaker: Bryan Lu, FortiGuard project manager.
• “The hackpacker guide: an in-depth look into custom run-time packers,” Thursday, September 24, 5:00 p.m. Speaker: Xu Yang, FortiGuard project manager.
• “Botnet-powered SQL injection attacks: a deeper look within” Thursday, September 24, 4:20 p.m. Speakers: David Maciejak, IPS analyst, and Guillaume Lovet.

Will you attend VB2009?