 He has contributed to one of the first research papers conducted on the Stuxnet worm, and was featured on the cover of the inaugural Pentest Magazine about the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES).He also co-authored research with Aviv Raff on Windows Vista's inherently insecure Widgets, which were later removed from the operating system.In 2011, Amit and Itzik Kotler presented at DEF CON, demonstrating how a bot master could communicate with botnets and with "zombie machines" using VoIP conference calls.