Wetzel to co-chair 2008 eCrime Researchers Summit, Oct. 15-16
Conference now accepting papers on security, fraud, phishing, spoofing, electronic identity theft, click-fraud and crimeware
HOBOKEN , N.J. ― Susanne Wetzel , Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology , will Co-Chair the eCrime Researchers Summit (eCrime 2008), the world's premier conference for basic and applied research in electronic crime studies. The conference, presented by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), is now accepting papers for its third annual event to be held in Atlanta on October 15-16. eCrime 2008 will feature papers from leading researchers and technologists on Internet security, fraud, phishing, spoofing, electronic identity theft, click-fraud and crimeware.
eCrime 2008 is led by principals from Stevens, University of Alabama at Birmingham , Baylor University and the APWG. The General Chair of eCrime 2008 is Gary Warner, who is the Director of Research in Computer Forensics at University of Alabama at Birmingham where he teaches and works to develop tools, techniques, and training to help eCrime investigators.
Wetzel’s research interests are in security, cryptography and algorithmic number theory. In particular, her research is focused on wireless security, secret sharing, privacy, phishing, authentication and biometrics.
Also program Co-Chairing this year's conference is Randy Vaughn of Baylor University .
Vaughn is active in Internet security with special interests in detecting, tracking and countering botnet formation and other eCrime activities.
Detailed information about the conference (including the call for papers) can be found at http://www.ecrimeresearch.org/2008/cfp.html. Paper submissions are due on June 5, 2008 .
The APWG established the eCrime Researchers Summit in 2006. APWG organized the inaugural eCrime Researchers Summit in Orlando with Florida State University , the National Center for Forensic Science at UCF and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and, last year, eCrime 2007 was programmed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University 's CyLab and the CERT/CC's Software Engineering Institute.
About the APWG
The APWG is an industry, law enforcement and government coalition focused on eliminating the identity theft and fraud that result from the growing problem of phishing, email spoofing, and crimeware. Membership is open to qualified financial institutions, online retailers, ISPs, the law enforcement community and solutions providers. There are more than 1,800 companies and government agencies participating in the APWG and more than 3,000 members. The APWG's website (www.antiphishing.org) offers the public and industry information about phishing and email fraud, including identification and promotion of pragmatic technical solutions that provide immediate protection.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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