The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) today announced that the the world's premier conference for basic and applied research in electronic crime studies, eCrime Researchers Summit (eCrime 2008), is now accepting papers for its third annual conference to be held in Atlanta on October 15-16. eCrime 2008 will feature papers from leading researchers and technologists on electronic identity theft, spoofing, phishing, fraud, Internet security, click-fraud and crimeware. eCrime 2008 is made possible by a collaboration of principals from University of Alabama at Birmingham, Stephens Institute of Technology, Baylor University, and the APWG.

APWG Deputy Secretary General and Director of eCrime Researchers Summit Development, Foy Shiver, declared: "We've got a team of towering authorities in information security, privacy, and electronic crime to chair and staff our conference committees". "Authors' exposure to these experts' opinions and direction will be of invaluable assistance to their research."

Gary Warner, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is the General Chair of eCrime 2008. Teaching and working to develop tools, techniques, and training to help eCrime investigators, Mr. Warner is the Director of Research in Computer Forensics at UAB.

Susanne Wetzel of Stevens Institute of Technology and Randy Vaughn of Baylor University are Program Co-Chairs for this year's conference.

With special interests in detecting, tracking and countering botnet formation and other eCrime activities, Randal Vaughn is active in Internet security. Mr. Vaughn lectures on cyber warfare, Internet security, telecommunications and software development at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.

Susanne Wetzel is on the faculty at the Computer Science Department of Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in cryptography, security and algorithmic number theory. In particular, her research is focused on wireless phishing, privacy, secret sharing, security, authentication, and biometrics.