2nd USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '08)
July 28, 2008
San Jose, CA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
WOOT '08 will be co-located with the 17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '08), which will take place July 28–August 1, 2008.
Important
Dates
Submissions due: June 8, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PDT Deadline Extended!
Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2008
Electronic files due: July 14, 2008
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
Overview
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 aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners in system security to present research
advancing the understanding of attacks on operating systems, networks,
and applications.
Instructions for Authors
Computer security is unique among systems disciplines in that practical
details matter and concrete case studies keep the field grounded in
practice. WOOT provides a forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed papers
discussing tools and techniques for attack.
Submissions should reflect the state of the art in offensive computer
security technology—either surveying previously poorly known areas
or presenting entirely new attacks.
We are interested in work that could be presented at more traditional,
academic security forums, as well as more applied work that informs the
field about the state of security practice in offensive techniques.
A significant goal is producing published artifacts that will inform
future work in the field. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and
shepherded as appropriate.
Submission topics include:
- Vulnerability research (software auditing, reverse engineering)
- Penetration testing
- Exploit techniques and automation
- Network-based attacks (routing, DNS, IDS/IPS/firewall evasion)
- Reconnaissance (scanning, software, and hardware fingerprinting)
- Malware design and implementation (rootkits, viruses, bots, worms)
- Denial-of-service attacks
- Web and database security
- Weaknesses in deployed systems (VoIP, telephony, wireless, games)
- Practical cryptanalysis (hardware, DRM, etc.)
Workshop Format
The attendees will be authors of accepted position
papers/presentations as well as invited guests. Each author will have
25 minutes to present his or her idea. A limited number of grants are
available to assist presenters who might otherwise be unable to attend
the workshop. Paper files will be available on the USENIX Web site to
participants before the workshop and will be made generally accessible after the workshop.
Submission Instructions
Papers must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday, June
8, 2008. This is a hard deadline—no extensions will be given.
Submissions should contain six or fewer two-column pages, excluding
references, using 10 point fonts, standard spacing, and 1 inch margins.
Please number the pages. All submissions will be electronic and must be in
either PDF (preferred) or PostScript. Author names and
affiliations should appear on the title page. Submit papers using the
Web form.
Given the unique focus of this workshop, we expect that work that has
been presented previously in an unpublished form (e.g., Black Hat
presentations) but that is well suited to a more formal and complete
treatment in a published, peer-reviewed setting will be submitted to
WOOT, and we encourage such submissions (with adequate citation of
previous presentations).
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. In some cases, program committees may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. If a violation of these principles is found, sanctions may include, but are not limited to, barring the authors from submitting to or participating in USENIX conferences for a set period, contacting the authors' institutions, and publicizing the details of the case.
Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's guidelines should contact the workshop organizers at woot08chairs@usenix.org or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.
Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication in the Proceedings.
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