USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT)
The USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies brings together both academics and practitioners in the field of offensive security research. Occurring annually since 2007, when it was first founded as the Workshop on Offensive Technologies, WOOT has become the top venue for collaboration between academia, independent hackers, and industry participants on offensive research. WOOT welcomes submissions from academia, independent researchers, students, hackers, and industry across two tracks: an academic 'classic' track and an 'up-and-coming' track for new or non-academic researchers.
Events
WOOT '26 (20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies)
by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
The 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) will take place on August 10–11, 2026, and will be co-located with the 35th USENIX Security Symposium in Baltimore, MD, USA. The conference features two submission tracks: an academic 'classic' track and an 'up-and-coming' track for new or non-academic researchers, both undergoing peer review with shepherding to help authors produce complete papers for the formal proceedings.