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- Only 4 days to the WOOT 2026 Cycle 1 submission deadline! Check the CFP for details: www.usenix.org/conference/w...
- USENIX WOOT Conference 2026: two submission deadlines this year! - Cycle 1: December 12, 2025 *only one month away* ! - Cycle 2: March 3, 2026 WOOT still has a SoK track and an "Up-and-coming track" (~Industry), CFP for details: www.usenix.org/conference/w...
- WOOT 2025 closing Keynote "Escaping Cantor's Find-Fix Cycle" by Falcon Darkstar Momot from Dartmouth College and Aiven.io
- Last papers session "Exploit All the Things" (Chair: Cristine Hoepers) - Soufian El Yadmani: SecurePoC—detecting malicious GitHub exploits - Andrea Mambretti: SoK on kernel vuln discovery & auto exploit generation - Junho Lee: BOOTKITTY—stealth bootkit-rootkit for modern OSes
- WOOT 2025 late morning session: Application Security (Chair: Yves Younan) - Gabriel Karl Gegenhuber: Prekey Pogo—WhatsApp handshake weaknesses - Manuel Karl: Formula injection in real-world spreadsheets - Jannik Hartung: PHP foot-gun case study (Best paper award !)
- WOOT 2025 day 2 starts with another Physical Attacks session (Chair: A. Zonenberg): - Valentin Huber: Deep dive into FRAM fault injection effects - Boyapally Harishma: Side-channel reality check on ARM Cortex-A72 - Wooyeon Jo: PLC memory exploitation in industrial systems
- WOOT 2025 last session today Network Security : - Mehrdad Hajizadeh: DeepRed: AI-driven red teaming vs ML-NIDS - Shujie Zhao: Stealth BGP hijacks under uRPF - Anqi Chen: FUZZVPN: Hunting OpenVPN vulns
- WOOT 2025 1st session of the afternoon, "Hacking at a Distance" with: - Tommaso Sacchetti on large scale Bluetooth Security Testing - Chengsong Diao: Vulnerabilities in Master Lock Smart Locks - Seyyed Ali Ayati Acoustic Side-Channel on keyboards
- WOOT 2025 schedule, all papers are now online open access: usenix.org/conference/w... Talks are recorded, and should be online in a few weeks.
- First session, on hardware security: Two talks on attacking the @raspberrypi.com RP2350 by @nsinusr.bsky.social and Andrew D. Zonenberg. One talk on exploiting software using hardware fault injections by Zhenyuan Liu
- WOOT 2025 Conference starting in Seattle. The program prepared by @noopwafel.bsky.social and @naehrdine.bsky.social includes sessions on hardware security, wireless attacks, network security. And tomorrow physical attacks, application security. And Keynote by Falcon Darkstar Momot
- Discounted early bird registration for WOOT '25 is still open until Monday - www.usenix.org/conference/w... - join us in Seattle on Aug 11/12 (right before USENIX Security) for talks and discussions on great cutting-edge offensive security research. Full program at www.usenix.org/conference/w...
- Planning to attend WOOT this year? (Seattle on Aug 11/12!) Bring demos or posters of your latest or upcoming offensive security work, or give a lightning talk! Submissions are open and very lightweight (just a couple of sentences will do) - details at www.usenix.org/conference/w...
- Two winners of the RP2350 Hacking Challenge will present their results at WOOT! Muench et al. break its secure boot guarantees through voltage, electromagnetic, and laser fault injection 💥 techniques: www.usenix.org/conference/w...
- Zonenberg et al. extract its one-time programmable memory through passive voltage contrast 🔬 using a focused ion beam ⚡: www.usenix.org/conference/w...
- The WOOT 2025 conference lineup is live! 👀 www.usenix.org/conference/w...
- Want to go to WOOT and learn about the latest hardware & software attacks? Registrations are now open! If you can't afford traveling ✈️ to Seattle on your own and need financial support for a ticket, apply for a grant until July 7: www.usenix.org/conference/w...
- Reviewer 2 just rejected your latest offensive security paper? Or didn't submit it anywhere yet? There's still more than a day left to (re)submit to USENIX WOOT '25 and get reviews from a community who will appreciate all those clever hacks, weird bugs 👾 and fun exploits! woot25.usenix.hotcrp.com
- Reposted by wootsecurityHave some hackademic research you'd love to see published as a paper? Submit it to WOOT 📝 Looking forward to your submissions!
- Only a week and a half left for USENIX WOOT '25 conference submissions - deadline March 11 AoE. We’re looking forward to seeing even more of your amazing offensive security papers this year! And still a few days for up-and-coming track (March 4). CfP at www.usenix.org/conference/w...
