BeNeLux OWASP Day 2013



= Welcome =

The OWASP BeNeLux Program Committee

 * Bart De Win / Sebastien Deleersnyder/ Lieven Desmet/ David Mathy, OWASP Belgium
 * Martin Knobloch / Ferdinand Vroom, OWASP Netherlands
 * Jocelyn Aubert / Andre Adelsbach/ Thierry Zoller, OWASP Luxembourg

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= Venue =

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Parking & roadmap:

There is a public parking close to the conference venue.

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= Conferenceday =

Location
TBD (for details, check the tab)

Remote Code Exection in WordPress: an analysis, by Tom Van Goethem (PhD Researcher, University of Leuven)
Abstract: With over 13 million downloads, WordPress is one of the most popular open source blog platforms and content management systems. One of its key features is the installation of plugins. These are developed by third parties, but WordPress has to maintain its legacy codebase in order to remain compatible with these plugins. As this codebase makes use of unsafe functions, vulnerabilities may arise, affecting thousands websites - if not more. This presentation will focus on a vulnerability that has been present in WordPress versions up to September 2013. This vulnerability, which may lead to Remote Code Execution, was found by a simple combination of two publicly known elements: PHP Object Injection and unexpected behaviour of MySQL regarding Unicode characters. Bio: Tom Van Goethem is passionate about web security. After getting a master's degree of Applied Informatics, he enrolled in a PhD at the University of Leuven. As a student with a chronic drinking problem, he still found some time to hunt bugs for fun (and profit).

Everything you always wanted to know about web-based device fingerprinting (but were afraid to ask), by Nick Nikiforakis (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leuven)
Abstract: Billions of users browse the web on a daily basis, and there are single websites that have reached over one billion user accounts. In this environment, the ability to track users and their online habits can be very lucrative for advertising companies, yet very intrusive for the privacy of users.

In this talk, we are going to describe web-based device fingerprinting, i.e., the ability to tell users apart, without the use of cookies or any other client-side identifiers. We will explain how device fingerprinting works, who is using, for what reason, and how people are trying to defend against it today. Bio: Nick Nikiforakis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven in Belgium. Nick's interests lie in the analysis of online ecosystems from a security and privacy perspective and he has published his work in top conferences of his field. More information about him can be found on his personal page: http://www.securitee.org.

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Remote Code Exection in WordPress: an analysis, by Tom Van Goethem (PhD University Leuven)
Abstract: With over 13 million downloads, WordPress is one of the most popular open source blog platforms and content management systems. One of its key features is the installation of plugins. These are developed by third parties, but WordPress has to maintain its legacy codebase in order to remain compatible with these plugins. As this codebase makes use of unsafe functions, vulnerabilities may arise, affecting thousands websites - if not more. This presentation will focus on a vulnerability that has been present in WordPress versions up to September 2013. This vulnerability, which may lead to Remote Code Execution, was found by a simple combination of two publicly known elements: PHP Object Injection and unexpected behaviour of MySQL regarding Unicode characters. Bio: Tom Van Goethem is passionate about web security. After getting a master's degree of Applied Informatics, he enrolled in a PhD at the University of Leuven. As a student with a chronic drinking problem, he still found some time to hunt bugs for fun (and profit).

Body Armor for Binaries, by Asia Slowinska (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Abstract: BinArmor is a novel technique to protect existing C binaries from memory corruption attacks on both control data and non-control data. Without access to source code, non-control data attacks cannot be detected with current techniques. Our approach hardens binaries against both kinds of overflow, without requiring the pro- grams’ source or symbol tables. We show that BinArmor is able to stop real attacks—including the recent non- control data attack on Exim. Moreover, we did not in- cur a single false positive in practice. On the downside, the current overhead of BinArmor is high—although no worse than competing technologies like taint analysis that do not catch attacks on non-control data. Specifi- cally, we measured an overhead of 70% for gzip, 16%- 180% for lighttpd, and 190% for the nbench suite. Bio: I am a postdoctoral researcher in the System and Network Security group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the guidance of Prof. dr. ir. Herbert Bos. I obtained my PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My dissertation Using information flow tracking to protect legacy binaries was completed under the supervision of Prof. dr. ir. Herbert Bos, while my copromotor was Prof. dr. ir. Henri E. Bal. During my PhD studies, I interned twice with Microsoft Research Cambridge, where I joined the Systems and Performance Group. I also spent few months interning with the Systems and Security Department at Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore. My research focuses on developing techniques to automatically analyze and reverse engineer complex software that is available only in binary form. Further, I’ve been looking into mechanisms that proactively protect software from malicious activities. Currently, I am involved in a project on Reverse Engineering of binaries, known as Rosetta.

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= Social Event =

Social Event, November 28th
TBD

= CTF =

Capture the Flag!

 * Do you like puzzles?
 * Do you like challenges?
 * Are you a hacker?

Whether you are an experienced hacker or new enthusiast you should come to OWASP BeNeLux 2013 and participate in the Capture the Flag event November 29th 2013.

The OWASP CTF is especially designed to support challengers of all skill levels. The CTF contains multiple challenges in various fields related to application security. As every challenge gains you one point, you can pick and choose which challenge you want to play.

All you need is a laptop with a wifi card and your favorite (preferably) non-commercial tools.

So come, show off your skills, learn new tricks and above all have a good time at the CTF event.

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