Photos: The look and feel of Virus Bulletin 2011

Help Net Security is attending the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona this week. Here’s an overview of the event in photos.

DC Bob Burls of UK’s Police Central eCrime Unit and F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen took us through the rise and fall of the m00p gang and gave their view on whether its takedown was worth the trouble.

VB conference attendees mingling during a coffee break between presentations.

McAfee’s Igor Muttik talked about harnessing the power of data mining in order to achieve automated heuristic malware detection.

Kaspersky Lab’s Dmitry Bestuzhev provided a peek into the cybercrime ecosystem and the way it works.

VB conference attendees are offered a technical and a corporate presentation track.

Eli Jellenc, VeriSign-iDefense, discussed malicious tools and techniques in a politicized, militarized cyberspace.