Progress in the field of computer security is driven by a symbiotic relationship between our understandings of attack and of defense. The USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners in system security to present research advancing the understanding of attacks on operating systems, networks, and applications.

The attendees were authors of accepted position papers/presentations as well as invited guests. A limited number of grants were available to assist presenters who might otherwise be unable to attend the workshop.

WOOT '08 was co-located with the 17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '08), July 28–August 1, 2008.

• Workshop Proceedings
• Workshop Reports from ;login:
• Original Call for Papers
• Proceedings of the Past WOOT Workshop

Workshop Organizers

Program Chairs
Dan Boneh, Stanford University
Tal Garfinkel, VMware
Dug Song, Zattoo

Program Committee
Pedram Amini, Tipping Point
Martin Casado, Stanford University
Chris Eagle, Naval Postgraduate School
Halvar Flake, Zynamics
Trent Jaeger, Pennsylvania State University
Nate Lawson, Root Labs
Charlie Miller, Independent Security Evaluators
Matt Miller, Leviathan Security Group
HD Moore, BreakingPoint Systems
Tim Newsham, Information Security Partners, LLC
Vern Paxson, International Computer Science Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Niels Provos, Google
Hovav Shacham, University of California, San Diego
Adam Shostack, Microsoft
Alex Sotirov, VMware
Giovanni Vigna, University of California, Santa Barbara