WOOT '11 Call For Papers Now Available

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Forwarded from: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj (at) usenix.org>

On behalf of the 5th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 
'11) program committee, we invite you to submit papers that present 
research advancing the understanding of attacks on operating systems, 
networks, and applications. Please submit your work by May 2, 2011, at 
11:59 p.m. PDT.

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.

Submission topics include but are not limited to:

* 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.)

For industry researchers: Did you just give a cool talk at SOURCE 
Boston? Got something interesting planned for Black Hat or DEFCON? This 
is exactly the type of work we'd like to see at WOOT. Please submit. It 
will also give you a chance to have your work reviewed and to receive 
suggestions and comments from some of the best researchers in the world.

New for 2011: Systematization of Knowledge" (SoK) Papers and Invited Talk Papers

The goal of a SoK paper is to encourage work that evaluates, 
systematizes, and contextualizes existing knowledge. These papers will 
provide a high value to our community but would not be accepted as 
refereed papers because they lack novel research contributions. Suitable 
papers include survey papers that provide useful perspectives on major 
research areas, papers that support or challenge long-held beliefs with 
compelling evidence, or papers that provide an extensive and realistic 
evaluation of competing approaches to solving specific problems.

Invited talk papers are papers previously published or accepted for 
publication at security conferences or workshops with proceedings (and 
thus are ineligible for submission to WOOT '11 as research papers), but 
that will be of interest to academic and industry researchers.

Co-located with the 20th USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisco, CA, 
WOOT '11 will take place on Monday, August 8, 2011.

Submissions are due Wednesday, May 2, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call 
for Papers at http://www.usenix.org/woot11/cfpa/

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University
Michal Zalewski, Google
WOOT '11 Program Co-Chairs
woot11chairs (at) usenix.org

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Call for Papers
5th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '11)
August 8, 2011
San Francisco, CA
http://www.usenix.org/woot11/cfpa/
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, May 2, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PDT
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