Israel

At Watchfire, Herzliya, Wednesday, September 5th 2007, 17:00
The next meeting of OWASP IL, The Israeli Chapter of OWASP, would be held at Watchfire offices in Herzliya on Wednesday, September 5th at 17:00. Watchfire will also sponsor the meeting. The meeting is part of OWASP Day, a Worldwide OWASP one day conferences on Privacy in the 21st Century which is in turn OWASP contribution to the Global Security Week.

You can find instructions on how to get to Watchfire office in the [[Media:Owasp_il_map_to_watchfire_offices.gif|map]]. Parking lots which charge a flat reasonable fee are marked on the map.

The agenda of the meeting is:

16:45 – 17:00 Gathering and refreshments

17:00 – 17:15 OWASP Updates

17:15 – 18:00 Straight from Blackhat: Dangling Pointers

Jonathan Afek, Senior Security Researcher, Watchfire

Jonthan will bring to us his acclaimed Blackhat presentation. Dangling pointers are a common programming error, but even OWASP experts assumed, until now, that exploiting this vulnerability can lead only to crashes and therefore only to denial of service attacks (see OWASP vulnerability guide). The research team at Watchfire proved that dangling pointers can be exploited to take control of a vulnerable system, elevating the severity of dangling pointers.

The presentation will explain the vulnerability and demonstrate a real exploit of the vulnerability using IIS as an example.

18:00 – 18:15 Break

18:15 – 19:00 Evasive Crimeware attacks, Business drivers, and Proposed Defense

Iftach Amit, Director Security Research, Finjan

Any web based attack requires a business model in order to spread. As the director of research for Finjan, Iftach monitors the highly successful web attacks focusing on client abuse and malware installation and the community that creates them. In the presentation Iftach will share with us his research findings.

The presentation will cover the business drivers of client side attack vectors, explore recent examples of such attacks with an eye-opening review of the attacker community and its operation methods, and conclude with a technical discussion of the cat and mouse game between cutting edge solutions and ever advancing attack vectors.

19:00 – 19:30 Content Injection as a solution for client side browser vulnerabilities

Ofer Shezaf, OWASP IL Leader; CTO, Breach Security, Breach Security

As we have seen in Iftach's presentation, clients are not very secure. While we, as web site owners, may not be directly responsible, this situation is just as much a problem for us: law might hold us responsible and the conquered and potentially trusted client may pose a risk to our web site. Good examples of problems which blurs the lines between client and server are the Universal PDF XSS and Cross Site Request Forgery.

Content Injection is a method proposed by Ivan Ristic, the creator of ModSecurity to enable a Web Application Firewall to protect against this family of problems. The presentation will explain this novel method and build on it to offer some practical recipes for protection against client side problems.

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Conference program and presentations download

Pictures from the conference

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The agenda of the meeting was:

[[media:OWASP_IL_Source_Code_Analysis_and_Application_Security.pdf|Source Code Analysis and Application Security - Cheating the Maze]]

Maty Siman, Founder & CTO, Checkmarx

During the last few years automatically analyzing source code in order to find security vulnerabilities became a popular method in the field of Application Security. The presentation will discuss the theory and research of static code analysis, the application of static code analysis for security, comparing this method to other application security defense technologies and will demonstrate the use of static code analysis for application security.

[[media:OWASP_IL_WCF_Security.pdf|Security Implications of .Net 3.0 and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)]]

Emmanuel Cohen-Yashar (Manu), Senior .NET technology consultant, Sela Group

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the new Microsoft communication framework bundled as part of of .NET Framework 3.0, the new .NET Windows API succeeding Win32 with the release of Windows Vista. WCF programming model unifies Web Services, .NET Remoting, Distributed Transactions, and Message Queues into a single Service-oriented programming model for distributed computing. The presentation will describe the tenets of SOA – Service Oriented Architecture, introduce WCF and discuss the security implications of this broad new communication paradigm.

[[media:OWASP_IL_The_Universal_XSS_PDF_Vulnerability.pdf|Analysis of the Universal XSS PDF vulnerability - Cause, Solutions and Fun Stuff]]

Ofer Shezaf, CTO, Breach Security, Leader of ModSecurity Core Rule Set open source project 

Recently a new vulnerability was discovered in commonly used versions of Adobe Acrobat software. Unlike common XSS attacks that require a specific vulnerability in the attacked web site, in this case the vulnerability in Acrobat is sufficient and no fault is required in the attacked web site, and any site that serves PDF files is vulnerable. Therefore it is called "universal XSS" vulnerability.

The presentation will describe the vulnerability, the theoretical and practical solutions for the vulnerability as well as some very funny stories about the dynamics of such a high profile vulnerability, or in other words, what happens when you try to get a car mechanic to fix an application security vulnerability.

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Conference program and presentations download

The meeting was sponsored by Breach Security and Applicure Technologies.



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Shai Zalalichin, Head of AppSec group, Comsec

Encryption is a very important tool in the application security tool chest, but is also a very complex technology. The presentation will explore common pitfalls & countermeasures that every developer should follow when writing crypto-aware applications.

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[[Media:OWASP_IL_Preventing_spoofing_phishing_and_spam.pdf|Preventing Spoofing, Phishing and Spamming by Secure Usability and Cryptography]]

Prof. Amir Herzberg, dept. of computer science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Spoofing, Phishing and spamming are of the worst security problems in the Internet. Amir will present vulnerabilities in the current email and web systems, causing the proliferation of such attacks. Amir will then discuss some recent proposals made by him as well as others to improve security against these threats. Some solutions involve secure usability, some use (simple) cryptographic protocols, while others involve both areas.