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11th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT17)

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The 11th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT17) took place the last two days in Vancouver. Some colleagues and I had the chance to attend and enjoy the presentations of all accepted papers of this rather small, single-track co-located USENIX event. Unfortunately, the talks have not been recorded. However, all the papers should be available on the website. It’s worth taking a look at all of the papers, but these are some presentations that we’ve enjoyed:

25th USENIX Security Symposium & WOOT Workshop

Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Last month the annual USENIX Security Symposium with its co-located workshops (WOOT, CSET, FOCI, ASE, and HotSec) was held in Austin, Texas. The program of the conference together with the published papers can be found here and information on the workshops can be found here.

The research topics were quite diverse and included subjects such as low-level attacks, cryptographic attacks, and vehicle attacks. To give you an impression on the research that has been presented at the conference, let us discuss some of the talks in the following:

24th USENIX Security Symposium & WOOT Workshop

Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I had the pleasure to attend the 24th USENIX Security Symposium and its co-located Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) in Washington, D.C. The workshop has received quite some attention this year, 57 submissions of which 19 have been accepted, so that the organizers decided to double its length from one to two days.

The first day of the workshop began with an excellent keynote by Adam Langley, in which he reflected on the current state of SSL/TLS and its vulnerabilities. As a side remark he mentioned that to tackle the everlasting problem of such vulnerabilities to occur, research should be performed with a much higher level of abstraction rather than focusing on the exact details of a “certain hash function of some specific CBC cipher”.