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20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26)

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20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) 2026 ran Aug 10–11, 2026 at Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, United States. It is a Cybersecurity conference. ConferenceGrid lists 99 speakers, 2 sponsors and 38 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Oct 15, 2026 · dates verified May 15, 2026

The 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies brings together academics and practitioners in the field of offensive security research. As the leading venue for collaboration between academia, independent hackers, and industry, WOOT presents innovative research on new attacks, tools, and offensive security techniques. Founded in 2007, the event an…

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99Speakers
2Sponsors
38Sessions
43Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at 20th, in alphabetical order.

Aanjhan Ranganathan
Northeastern University
Alexander Neff
Ruhr University Bochum
Andreas Kogler
Graz University of Technology Alumni
Andrew Chin
Georgia Institute of Technology
Antonio Bianchi
Program Co-Chair · Purdue University
Antonis Louka
DistriNet, KU Leuven
Arash Ale Ebrahim
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Atsushi Tanaka
The University of Osaka
Aurélien Francillon
EURECOM
Bertalan Borsos
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Bill Marczak
Senior Researcher at The Citizen Lab · The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
Billy Brumley
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bozhen Liu
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Brian Junekyu Lee
Georgia Institute of Technology
Cen Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Christoph Sanders
DistriNet - KU Leuven
Connor Glosner
Purdue University
Constantinos Patsakis
University of Piraeus
Dave (Jing) Tian
Purdue University
David Amebley
University of Alabama
David Oswald
Durham University
Dev Mehta
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

MetaBronze
X-BowBronze

Agenda

Selected from 38 sessions.

  • Monday, August 10, 10:30 am–12:10 pm

    DisARMed: Attacking ARM TrustZone from Userspace with Memory Aliasing

    Modern systems security relies on memory isolation mechanisms like trusted execution environments and kernel privilege separation to enforce strong isolation boundaries. However, m…

    Embedded, Automotive, and Platform Security
  • Monday, August 10, 10:30 am–12:10 pm

    Embedded, Automotive, and Platform Security

    Embedded, Automotive, and Platform Security
  • Monday, August 10, 10:30 am–12:10 pm

    HotWire: Real-World Impersonation and Discharge Attacks on Electric Vehicle Charging Systems

    Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructures continue to depend heavily on the legacy DIN 70121 protocol, which lacks cryptographic authentication and exposes critical control me…

    Embedded, Automotive, and Platform Security
  • Monday, August 10, 10:30 am–12:10 pm

    Real-Time Compromise: Investigating RTC Security in Consumer IoT

    Real-time communication (RTC) is increasingly adopted in the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling interactive capabilities in smart cameras, home assistants, and industrial devices. …

    Embedded, Automotive, and Platform Security
  • Monday, August 10, 10:30 am–12:10 pm

    Security Analysis of LTE Connectivity in Connected Cars: A Case Study of Tesla

    Modern connected vehicles rely on persistent LTE connectivity to enable remote diagnostics, over-the-air (OTA) updates, and safety-relevant services. While mobile network vulnerabi…

    Embedded, Automotive, and Platform Security
  • Monday, August 10, 10:30 am–12:10 pm

    SoK: 20 Years of Power, Privilege, and Peril in x86 System Management Mode

    System Management Mode (SMM) is a highly privileged execution mode present in x86 processors since the early 1990s. With full control over hardware and system memory, SMM has long …

    Embedded, Automotive, and Platform Security
  • Monday, August 10 1:40 pm–3:00 pm

    FuzzBT: Holistic-State-Guided Fuzzing for Bluetooth Host Stack in Kernels

    Program Analysis and Fuzzing
  • Monday, August 10 1:40 pm–3:00 pm

    Program Analysis and Fuzzing

    Program Analysis and Fuzzing
  • Monday, August 10 1:40 pm–3:00 pm

    SemSan: A Configurable Sanitizer for Detecting Semantic Bugs

    Program Analysis and Fuzzing

Quick answers

When is 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) 2026?
20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) 2026 ran Aug 10–11, 2026 at Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, United States.
Where is 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) 2026 held?
20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) 2026 was held at Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, United States.
Who is speaking at 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 99 speakers, including Aanjhan Ranganathan (Northeastern University), Alexander Neff (Ruhr University Bochum) and Andreas Kogler (Graz University of Technology Alumni).
Who sponsors 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 2 sponsors: Meta and X-Bow.
Company intelligence

An audience of 43 companies, parsed from the program.

43 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
41Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority
  • Research / Science11%
  • Other roles9899%

Of 99 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Georgia Institute of Technology10
2DistriNet - KU Leuven7
3Purdue University6
4Ruhr University Bochum6
5EPFL5
6Graz University of Technology5
7University of Birmingham5
8Worcester Polytechnic Institute5
9MetaSponsor · Bronze-
10National Taiwan University of Science and Technology3
11Northeastern University3
12Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi3
13The University of Osaka3
14XBOWSponsor · Bronze-
Sponsors by tier
bronze2
100% of 2