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APWG Cybercrime Conference Inaugurates New Review Scheme for Industrial and Academic ResearchThe APWG announced the bifurcation of its review regimen for next year's APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research conference in Toronto, dividing review of submitted research papers into two tracks covering applied, industrial cybercrime research as well as theoretical, academic research. To further strengthen confidence in each track, there have been two managing chairs and committees appointed for reviewing and selecting papers for each track of the cybercrime conference. The official call for research papers has been published here: https://apwg.org/apwg-events/ecrime2016/cfp APWG eCrime 2016 will be held in Toronto from June 1-3, with the deadline for submissions on January 30, 2016. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings with IEEE (News - Alert). In addition, cash awards will be given for the best paper overall and the best student co-authored paper. A limited number of cash travel awards will also be made to student authors of papers and posters. Symposium General Chair, PayPal (News - Alert) Data Scientist Brad Wardman, Ph.D. enthused, "The APWG eCrime conference has been an established, pioneering conference for publishing research into eCrime for more than a decade; however, research is mostly from or in conjunction with the academic community. It is difficult being a researcher in industry trying to publish as you may not be able to dedicate the amount of rigorous checks and balances that committee members have to come to expect for an academic publication. This conference is a perfect place to provide that opportunity as it was designed to unite academia with industry." Founded by APWG as the world's only peer-reviewed research conference dedicated specifically to cybercrime studies in 2006, the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research has attracted submissions from hundreds of cybercrime principle investigators from research centers around the world. The shift in review regimen is the first in the history of this unique and much-watched conference. Outgoing General Chair, Dr. Saeed Abu-Nimeh, founder and CEO of Seclytics, Inc., said, "Unlike many security conferences eCrime's goal has been always to foster practical and applied research that contributes to the protection of organizations and Internet users. eCrime is one of the few academic conferences where academics and researchers get to present and socialize their ideas with experts from the security industry, government financial institutions, and academia." Mr. Abu-Nimeh was general chair in 2014 and sat as program co-chair in 2009, 2011, and 2012. The APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research 2016 provides academia and industry with a place to publish their research and be reviewed by a committee of peers assigned for the track they register for. Academic research papers will be peer reviewed by an academic committee, whereas industrial research and/or case study papers will be reviewed by a committee of industry peers. Arriving with the new conference scheme is a completely new line-up of program managers for the annual research symposium in Toronto in June, 2016. Joining General Chair Wardman are NYU Assistant Professor Damon McCoy and Google's (News - Alert) anti-abuse research team lead, Elie Bursztein. Wardman is part of PayPal's security intelligence group where he actively researches and develops mitigation strategies for attacks against PayPal's customers and infrastructure. Before joining PayPal, Brad completed his Ph.D. under the mentorship of Gary Warner at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research interests include anti-phishing, open source intelligence strategies, automated attack neutralization, and crimeware. Damon McCoy obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research includes work on the economics and current state of e-crime, wireless privacy, anonymous communication systems, and cyber-physical security. More generally, he is interested in exploring and improving the security and privacy of large-scale systems. Elie Bursztein leads Google's anti-abuse research, which invents ways to protect users against cyber-criminal activities and Internet threats. Elie helped redesign Google's CAPTCHA to make it easier, and made Chrome on Android (News - Alert) safer and faster by implementing better cryptography. Recently he got the best paper award for his research on Secret Questions at WWW 2015 and malicious Ads injectors at S&P 2015. Symposium founder and APWG Secretary General Peter Cassidy said, "The new review schema is important to inspire and cultivating cutting-edge cybercrime research from both industry and academia and, I hope, moves us another step closer to the achievement of disciplinary stature for this still-nacent field, one that continues to attract increasing numbers of groundbreaking investigators, among them our new conference managers." The conference website can be found at http://www.apwg.org/apwg-events/ecrime2016/ About the APWG The APWG, founded in 2003 as the Anti-Phishing Working Group, is the global industry, law enforcement, and government coalition focused on unifying the global response to electronic crime. Membership is open to qualified financial institutions, online retailers, ISPs and Telcos, the law enforcement community, solutions providers, multi-lateral treaty organizations, research centers, trade associations and government agencies. There are more than 2,000 companies, government agencies and NGOs participating in the APWG worldwide. The APWG's www.apwg.org and education.apwg.org websites offer the public, industry and government agencies practical information about phishing and electronically mediated fraud as well as pointers to pragmatic technical solutions that provide immediate protection. The APWG is co-founder and co-manager of the STOP. THINK. CONNECT. Messaging Convention, the global online safety public awareness collaborative www.stopthinkconnect.org and founder/curator of the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, the world's only peer-reviewed conference dedicated specifically to electronic crime studies www.ecrimeresearch.org.
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