Feb 22 2008
Yesterday night I ran my first OWASP Bay Area meeting! It was certainly an interesting experience, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought. Thanks to everyone that helped me to make the meeting possible.
We had a great turnout, with about 35 people attending, and I hope everyone enjoyed the talks as much as […]
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Jan 24 2008
Tonight was another good OWASP Bay Area meeting. Over 50 people attended the meeting, and I hope these numbers continue to rise.
The first talk was on Adobe Flash security. Here are my notes:
Cross-site flashing takes advantage of the html flash parameter allowscriptaccess=always
Stefano Di Paola released SWFIntruder a few months ago to help analyze Flash applications […]
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Dec 14 2007
Yesterday was the first meeting under the newly founded “OWASP Bay Area” chapter, which combines the San Francisco, San Jose, and East Bay chapters into one big one! The meeting was held at the beautiful Stanford Alumni Association Center.
Niels Provos presented on how Google detects malware from their web crawlers, and the ties […]
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Nov 18 2007
Over the last week I was at eBay in San Jose California for the OWASP and WASC AppSec conference. The event was loads of fun, and over 200 people attended the two day event.
There were many good talks, but the winner had to be from Samy (of the MySpace Samy worm). It was not a […]
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Oct 05 2007
Yesterday was another great OWASP meeting by the SF chapter. The lineup included Ivan Ristic, who talked about web application firewalls (WAF), and Neil Daswani, who talked about emerging security vulnerabilities and the impact to business.
The meeting was held at Golden Gate University, a place I didn’t even know existed, even though I pass it […]
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Sep 07 2007
Thursday was the worldwide OWASP day, with the common theme of privacy in the 21st century. I was at the San Jose meeting which was hosted by eBay, and had a blast.
This was my first visit to the eBay campus, and I liked the place except for the security. They weren’t armed police, but all […]
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