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British Telecom

COMPENG 2010 - Extended Submission Deadline

=== Keynote Speakers ===

* Ian Dobson (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
* Antonello Monti (Institute for Automation of Complex Systems at the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
* Maziar Nekovee (British Telecom and University College London, UK)
* Marios M. Polycarpou (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus)
* Marti Rosas y Casals (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya and Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
* Vittorio Rosato (ENEA Casaccia, Italy)

=== Program Committee ===

New Web Hacking Incidents at WHID

http://www.webappsec.org/projects/whid):

So what's new at WHID this week?

+ A lot of problems for web hosting companies: In one of them a subsidiary
of British Telecom suffered a major intrusion where someone stole all its
clients e-mails, used it for spam and planted malware on their sites. All
due to a programming mistake of one their programmers:  WHID 2007-75:
PlusNet blames itself for webmail spamfest
(http://www.webappsec.org/projects/whid/byid_id_2007-75.shtml). Other
hosting incidents: WHID 2007-74: Web host breach may have exposed passwords



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