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Adopt OSS. First Edition
OWASP Italy is pleased to announce a new initiative: Adopt OpenSourceSoftware

Given OWASP’s mission to help organizations with application security, we have established a new initiative to provide free, voluntary-based support to open source software projects.

Thanks to Adopt OSS, security enthusiasts are paired with participating open source projects, thus gaining exposure to real-life security engineering challenges and the opportunity for career growth. In turn, the participating projects are able to obtain free professional expertise to better improve their security posture, and ultimately build secure software. Over a six months period, OWASP Italy will facilitate the effort by coordinating the initiative and providing support when needed.

The first edition of this initiative will take place between May and November 2015, and will see the participation of 7 OWASP Italy members and 3 major OpenSource projects. At the end of the six months period, OWASP Italy will publish results and feedback from both volunteers and OSS maintainers.

The official flyer can be downloaded from here.

Ntopng
Alessio Petracca, Mattia Folador

Ntop is the de-facto standard for real-time network traffic monitoring. OWASP Italy wants to help the project by increasing the security level of ntopng, performing security testing activities and supporting the remediation process.

We will act in two steps:
 * First, a penetration test targeting the web interface of ntopng will be performed, following the OWASP Testing Methodology
 * Secondly, source code review of ntopng main components (such as the C++ core engine) will be statically reviewed. The objective is to address all relevant checks contained within the OWASP Code Review Guide

In case the activities above are completed before the end of the six-months period, additional activities (such as the development of security plugins) will be discussed. Luca Deri and Arianna Avanzini will support Alessio Petracca and Mattia Folador in these activities, by providing guidance and insights.

WordPress
Paolo Perego, Sandro Zaccarini

WordPress is the facto standard for web publishing. If you need a blog, if you need a new showcase website for your portfolio or a tiny e-commerce web site for your small company you will look at WordPress to start.

Paying the cost to be the boss, WordPress during the years suffered tons of security issues, 3 major issues only in the beginning of May 2015. Either the core, plugins and themes are developed with easy to use in mind and they need to be hardened.

OWASP Italy wants to support WordPress adopting it with the "Stand by WordPress" initiative. We will deploy the software in three different standard configurations: blog, company's portfolio and e-commerce.

We will do continuous appsec during development of 4.3 version in order to quickly spot security issues before the August release. In addition, we will take care of hardening guidelines and both plugins and themes subsystems in order to improve the overall architecture.

You can follow the progress of the "Stand by WordPress" initiative here: https://standbywordpress.wordpress.com

GlobaLeaks
Luca Carettoni, Giovanni Cerrato, Marco Lancini

GlobaLeaks is the first open-source whistleblowing framework. It empowers anyone to easily set up and maintain an anonymous whistleblowing platform.

Considering the potential hostile environments in which the application may be hosted, security vulnerabilities and abuses are primary concerns for GlobaLeaks’ maintainers.

We want to help the team in their excellent application security practices, by performing vulnerability research activities in order to discover unknown bugs within the boundaries of their specific threat model. In particular, we will be focusing on two main software components (GLBackend and GLClient) and new security-relevant changes (upcoming authentication re-factoring and end-to-end encryption).

For more information on Adopt OSS, please send an email to [mailto:owasp-italy@lists.owasp.org owasp-italy@lists.owasp.org]

OWASP-Isaca Conference @ Rome 11-12th December 2014
The agenda is online! http://www.isacaroma.it/images/owasp_agenda_11-12-12-2014.JPG

OWASP-Isaca Conference @ Venice 3rd October 2014
The agenda: Here is the flyer

OWASP-Italy Day @ the University of Genova (14th May 2014)
Thank to the collaboration with Prof. Alessandro Armando and to the availability of Gary McGraw, Ph.D. CTO, Cigital we are planning an incredible OWASP Day next 14th May.

OWASP Italy @ Security Summit 2014
OWASP Italy participated to the Security Summit 2014 in Milan with 3 talks. See here for all the details

OWASP EU Tour 2013 - 27th June - Rome
Thanks to the collaboration with Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, next 27th June we will have the OWASP EU Tour Rome Conference. OWASP Europe TOUR, is an event across the European region that promotes awareness about application security, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks. Everyone is free to participate in OWASP and all of our materials are available under a free and open software license.

The conference will be held at Università Degli Studi Roma Tre. Address: Via Vito Volterra, 62, Rome.

Here you can find the agenda and all the information to participate

OWASP Italy @ Security Summit 2013
OWASP Italy participated to the Security Summit 2013 in Milan with 2 talks. See here for all the details

OWASP Italy Day 2012: "Web Security in a Mobile World"


We are pleased to announce that the OWASP Italy chapter will host the OWASP Italy Day 2012 conference in Rome, Italy at the University of Rome La Sapienza next 23rd November 2012.

More information here

OWASP-Italy Board
Founder and Chair: Matteo Meucci (Jan 2005) OWASP Italy Board: Paolo Perego, Luca Carettoni, Antonio Parata, Giorgio Fedon, Stefano Di Paola, Mauro Bregolin, Claudio Merloni, Raoul Chiesa.
 * This is the OWASP-Italy Board:

Partnerships

 * ISC2-Italian Chapter: Thanks to Marco Misitano, Paolo Ottolino and Claudio Sasso, OWASP Italy collaborates with the ISC2-Italian Chapter for new initiatives regarding Security Conferences, articles and contentes regarding SDLC.

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 * CSA Italy Partnership

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Thanks to Alberto Manfredi (CSA Italy President) we are starting a collaboration with the Italian Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance.


 * IsecLab Partnership

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We are beginning a collaboration with David Balzarotti and Marco Balduzzi of International Secure Systems Lab(IsecLab) with the goal of sharing and improving new WebAppSec projects.


 * CLUSIT Member

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Thanks to CLUSIT and OWASP Foundation we have established a cross-membership between the two organizations. So OWASP-Italy is now a CLUSIT member and CLUSIT is an OWASP Educational Member.


 * ISACA Rome

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Thanks to Ugo Spaziani, we are developing seminars and new ideas with ISACA Rome.

Security Summit 2012
- 21st March 2012, OWASP Italy will present 3 talks:

- Antonio Parata e Paolo Perego:"Security Testing for developers" - Giorgio Fedon: "Banking Malware evolution in Italy: defense approach" - Stefano Di Paola:"DOM Xss: la nuova generazione di vulnerabilità applicative" Please subscribe for free here: https://www.securitysummit.it/eventi/view/21

Security Summit 2011
- 15th March 2011, OWASP-Italy presented a seminar about OWASP news. Here you can download the presentations: - Matteo Meucci: "OWASP Future and the OWASP Guidelines: how your company can adopt it to obtain best results" - Paolo Perego: "OWASP tools for the Software Security" - Giorgio Fedon: "Myth Busting Automatic Code Review tools" More information here: https://www.securitysummit.it/eventi/view/24

OWASP Books are out!

Now you can download or buy a book on the OWASP Projects. Check it here: http://stores.lulu.com/owasp

Activities

 * (Jun 10): OWASP Testing Guide presentation at FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler).

This Course was FREE for OWASP Members. http://www.owasp.org/index.php/London/Training/OWASP_projects_and_resources_you_can_use_TODAY
 * (May 10): OWASP Training at London: last 28th May in London, OWASP leaders deliver a course focused on the main OWASP Projects. This course aims to change that by providing a selection of mature and enterprise ready projects together with practical examples of how to use them.


 * (Jan 09) OWASP Testing Guide v3 is finished! You can download or browse it here


 * (Mar 07) Luca Carettoni has published an interview to OWASP-Italy (OWASP interviews OWASP :) )

Here the full article.


 * (Oct 06) ISACA Roma has published several interview with OWASP-Italy members:

[Matteo Meucci] [Alberto Revelli] [Antonio Parata] [Paolo Perego] [Carlo Pelliccioni]


 * (Sep 06) Paolo Perego has created the new OWASP Orizon Project. Go to OWASP Orizon Project


 * (Sep 06) Matteo Meucci has been selected as the new editor of the OWASP Testing Guide v2. See OWASP press release and go to OWASP Testing Project v2


 * (Sep 06) Carlo Pelliccioni is writing an article about the analysis of error codes received by web servers.


 * Top10 Vulnerabilities - OWASP-Italy survey:




 * (21 Jun 06) Infosecurity 2006: the event is organized and managed by the CLUSIT.

Alberto Revelli and Matteo Meucci will partecipate as speakers at the seminar: "Web Application Security: guidelines and security auditing for web applications". More info here


 * (1 Jun 06) "Quaderno CLUSIT"

CLUSIT has published a book entitled: "La verifica della sicurezza di applicazioni Web-based e il progetto OWASP". Several OWASP-Italy members (R.Chiesa, L.De Santis, M.Graziani, L.Legato, M.Meucci, A.Revelli) have contributed to the writing. The document is now reserved to CLUSIT members, but will be made public in about 3 months.


 * (31 May 06) Luca Carettoni has published the article "La sicurezza delle applicazioni Web secondo l'Open Web Application Security Project". Hereyou can read the full article.


 * (1 Mar 06) OWASP-Boston, Microsoft

Thanks to Jim Weiler, Matteo Meucci has presented "Anatomy of two web attacks" at the OWASP-Boston meeting. More info here


 * (18 Nov 05) IDC - European Banking Forum

Thanks to Raoul Chiesa (Director of Communication OWASP-Italy), we will have a great speech at the IDC European IT Banking Forum 2005. Agenda: - New standards for the ICT security auditing in the italian banking scenario: OSSTMM and OWASP. Raoul Chiesa, Director of Communications, ISECOM/OWASP-Italy and Matteo Meucci, OWASP-Italy Chair - Workshop: unusual form of attacks and banking system violation: live experience. Raoul Chiesa, Director of Communications, ISECOM/OWASP-Italy


 * (Oct 05) SMAU 2005 is the 42a International ICT &amp; Consumer Electronics Exhibition for Italy.

SMAU has accepted our submission! More info here


 * (Giu 05) Thanks to Massimiliano Graziani we have translated in italian the "OWASP Pen Test Checklist v.1.1". You can download it here.

Thanks to the collaboration with CLUSIT, this doc is available also here.


 * (May 05) ISACA Roma Newsletter has published an interview to OWASP-Italy


 * (Apr 05) We have written an article describing the OWASP projects, Web Application Security and the next challenges. ICT Security.(the italian magazine about Information Security) has published the article on the number 33 - April 2005.


 * The presentation of the seminar we have done in ISACA Rome (31th March 2005) is now available here.


 * (Apr 05) We have published a presentation describing a detailed case study of a web application vulnerabilty (MMS Spoofing).


 * (Mar 05) Thanks to Matteo Paolelli we have translated the "OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilties in Web Application Security" in italian language. You can download it here.


 * Here you can read an interview talking about OWASP.

15th March, 2011 - OWASP-Italy@Security Summit
- 15th March 2011, OWASP-Italy presented a seminar about OWASP news. Here you can download the presentations: - Matteo Meucci: "OWASP Future and the OWASP Guidelines: how your company can adopt it to obtain best results" - Paolo Perego: "OWASP tools for the Software Security" - Giorgio Fedon: "Myth Busting Automatic Code Review tools" More information here: https://www.securitysummit.it/eventi/view/24

November, 2010 - OWASP-Italy Day V
- OWASP Day for E-Gov 2010: 9th November 2010 - Rome. An event organized by Consip. More information here

November, 2009 - OWASP-Italy Day IV
Following on from the great success of last OWASP Days the forth conference has taken place in November 2009 in Milan. More information here

OWASP Day for E-Gov 2009: 5th November 2009 - Rome. More information here

31st March, 2009 - OWASP-Italy @ PCI Milan
Matteo Meucci was invited to talk about OWASP Testing Guide and PCI-DSS Standard at the PCI Milan event last 31st March.

The presentation is published here

23rd February, 2009 - OWASP Day III
"Web Application Security: research meets industry" Presentations are online!

10th October, 2008 - Isaca Roma PCM 2008
Matteo Meucci presented the new OWASP Projects and the Application Security in the Italian Companies. More information here

31st March, 2008 - OWASP Day II
"The State of the Art of the Web Application Security and the OWASP guidelines in the Companies" Presentations are online!

February 2008 - OWASP Italy at InfoSecurity 2008
5th February:


 * 14:30 - The Owasp Orizon project: internals and hands on

Paolo Perego

6th February:


 * 14:30 - Costruire Software Sicuro dalle Fondamenta

Antonio Parata

7th February:


 * 10:30 - Tu programmi. Io buco.

Luca Carettoni

Here you can read more information about it.

November 30th, 2007 - OWASP-Italy @ Elsag Datamat Security Forum
Matteo Meucci was invited to talk about OWASP Guidelines and SDLC Security at the Elsag Datamat Security Forum 2007 Where: Pescara When: 30th November 2007, h.12.30

October 20th, 2007 - OWASP Italy at SMAU E-Academy 2007
Last 20th October 2007 we had 5 speeches at SMAU E-Academy 2007, here you can download our presentations:


 * Giorgio Fedon, COO at Minded Security:

"Dove sono finiti i miei soldi? Internet Banking e Cross Site Scripting" (coming soon)


 * Paolo Perego, Senior Security Consultant at Spike Reply:

"The Owasp Orizon project - bring security at the source"


 * Antonio Parata, Security Consultant at eMaze:

"Valutazione del rischio tramite la logica fuzzy" (coming soon)


 * Alberto Revelli, Senior Security Consultant at Portcullis Security:

"Anti-Anti-XSS: bypass delle difese del browser"


 * Stefano Di Paola, CTO at Minded Security:

"Cros-site Flashing! Gli attacchi Web di ultima generazione parlano multipiattaforma" (coming soon)

September 10th, 2007 - OWASP Day WorldWide: "Privacy in the 21st Century"
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Italy_OWASP_Day_1

May 29th, 2007 - Seminar: "Software Security"

 * Stefano Di Paola, Paolo Perego and Matteo Meucci will talk at the Seminar: "Which approaches to Software Security" organized by Firenze Tecnologia.

May 15th-17th, 2007 - 6th OWASP AppSec Conference in Italy

 * We are in the initial planning stages for the next OWASP Europe conference, which we plan to hold in Italy in May 2007.

Here you can find all the details about the conference, cfp and sponsorship.

April 14th, 2007 - Master on Information Security, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

 * We have done a 4h seminar for the students of Master on Information Security at "La Sapienza" for the Application Security Project of "La Sapienza" University.

March 30th, 2007 - University of Rome "La Sapienza"

 * Thanks to Prof. Mancini and Roberto D'Addario, we will talk about OWASP at the convention "Institutions, Companies and Information Security: comparing the problems"

Here you can find more details.

March 1st, 2007 - EuSecWest 07
Alberto Revelli and Matteo Meucci presented the new OWASP Testing Guide at EUSecWest. Here you take a look at the presentation.

February 6th-8th, 2007 - InfoSecurity

 * February 6th:15.30

After the great success obtained form CCC at Berlin, Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio Fedon will talk about:" Web Security Client Side: attacks at Web 2.0" More information here.


 * February 6th:16.30

After the great effort on the Testing Guide Project, Matteo Meucci and Alberto Revelli will present: "The new OWASP Testing Guide" More Information here.


 * February 7th:12.30

Authors of innovative SQL injection tools, Alberto Revelli and Antonio Parata will show: "Advanced SQL Injection: testing tools and defensive strategies." More Information here


 * February 7th:13.30

Author of the new OWASP Orizon project, Paolo Perergo will present:"Secure programming: from theory to practice" More Information here.

January 25th, 2007 - Isaca Rome
Matteo Meucci will discuss the new OWASP Testing Guide v2 For more information: http://www.isacaroma.it/html/GiornateDiStudio.html

October 7th, 2006 - SMAU 2006
- "The quest for secure code: code review and fundamental of secure coding." Matteo Meucci will present an introduction to the new OWASP Projects and OWASP-Italy activities. Paolo Perego (sp0nge) will speak about safe coding and the importance of code periodic review as natural software life cycle. Paolo will give a vision on code review and its phases http://www.webb.it/event/eventview/5772

Here are the presentations:

- "Advanced SQL Injection." Antonio Parata (S4tan) will explain SQL Injection, and how SQL Inference works on PHP/MySql platform. He will present an open source tool to support the testing. Alberto Revelli (icesurfer) will focus on Microsoft SQL Server: he will perform a live demo of sqlninja (http://sqlninja.sf.net), explaining how to obtain a pseudo-shell over SQL, how to escalate privileges, and how to play with the exotic equation: "SQL Injection + debug.exe + DNS = DOS prompt" ! http://www.webb.it/event/eventview/5774



Luca, Carlo, Alberto, Antonio, Stefano Matteo, Paolo, Giorgio

September 29th, 2006 - OpenExp 2006
September 30th, at 10:45 Antonio Parata (S4tan) will speak about SQL Injection: techniques, tools and practical examples.

Abstract: Antonio will introduce some basic concepts about software security. It will be shown how SQL Inference works on PHP/MySql platform and presented an open source tool to support the testing. Finally will be listed some advises to avoid common bugs. http://www.openexp.it/

OWASP-Italy will have a stand from September 29th to October 1st.



June 21th, 2006 - InfoSecurity 2006
Alberto Revelli and Matteo Meucci will partecipate as speakers at the seminar: "Web Application Security: guidelines and security auditing for web applications". The event is organized and managed by the CLUSIT.

Where: Sheraton Roma Hotel - Viale Del Pattinaggio, 100 When: 10,30 - 17,00 Who: Matteo Meucci and Alberto Revelli Link: http://www.infosecurity.it/Roma/programma.php

Agenda: -- I Session -- Introduction to Web Application Security • Which are the risks? • Risk assessment of a web application • Core pillars of web security How to develop secure web applications: • Guidelines and case-studies

-- II Session -- How to realize a security audit of a web application • The methodology OWASP Penetration Testing • The tools: OWASP WebScarab • Hands-on web application vulnerabilities: OWASP WebGoat • Advanced SQL Injection.

March 1st, 2006 - OWASP-Boston, Microsoft
Thanks to Jim Weiler (OWASP-Boston Chair), Matteo Meucci has presented "Anatomy of two web attacks" at the OWASP-Boston meeting of march. More info here

November 5th, 2005 - IDC - European Banking Forum
Thanks to Raoul Chiesa (Director of Communication OWASP-Italy), we have had a great speech at the IDC European IT Banking Forum 2005 (18 Nov 2005). http://www.idc.com/italy/events/banking05/banking05_agenda.jsp Agenda:


 * New standards for the ICT security auditing in the italian banking scenario: OSSTMM and OWASP. Raoul Chiesa, Director of Communications, ISECOM/OWASP-Italy and Matteo Meucci, OWASP-Italy Chair
 * Workshop: unusual form of attacks and banking system violation: live experience. Raoul Chiesa, Director of Communications, ISECOM/OWASP-Italy.

You can download the report here.

You can download the Case-Study of a vulnerable Home Banking Web Application here.

October 5th, 2005 - OWASP-Italy@SMAU2005
SMAU is the 42a International ICT &amp; Consumer Electronics Exhibition for Italy. Alberto Revelli (our Technical Director) and Matteo Meucci have conducted a seminar talking about Web Application Security. Alberto has presented his new project: sqlninja. Very cool!!

http://www.webb.it/event/eventview/4488/1/progetto_owasp__case_study_di_applicativi_web_vulnerabili

May 25th, 2005 - ISACA Rome 2nd meeting
May 25th we'll be in ISACA Rome to present OWASP WebGoat and a real case of a Web Application Vulnerability. Every one is invited to join the meeting.

Here is the agenda: 14.30 Registration 14.45 Matteo Meucci - Web Application Security Phase II - OWASP WebScarab and PenTest Checklist


 * A case-study of a Web Application Vulnerability: MMS Spoofing

--- Web Application analysis --- Authentication and Billing of the MMS service --- Vulnerabilities --- Attack Analysis


 * Learning the most common web application vulnerabilities: OWASP WebGoat

--- Http Basics --- HTML Clues --- Hidden Field Tampering --- How to spoof a Session Cookie --- Stored Cross Site Scripting --- Command Injection --- SQL Injection --- Fail Open Authentication

The meeting is hold at: Via Volturno, 65 (Rome) - Auditorium ATAC

You can download the presentation here.

May 18th, 2005 - Workshop on Computer Crime 2005
May 18th, 2005 OWASP-Italy is invited to present OWASP Top 10 to the "Workshop on Computer Crime 2005" titled: "EVOLUZIONI NORMATIVE E RECENTI PROBLEMATICHE DI SICUREZZA"

The meeting is held at: Sala delle conferenze dell'Istituto Centrale della Banche Popolari Italiane Via Verziere, 11

You can download the presentation here.

March 31th, 2005 - ISACA Rome meeting
March 31th we'll be in ISACA Rome to present OWASP and the Web Application Security. Every one is invited to join the meeting.

Here is the agenda: 14.15 Registration 14.30 Matteo Meucci - Web Application Security - OWASP Guide: how to build secure web application - How to test your Web Application: WebScarab and the WebApp PenTest Checklist - How to learn the most common web application vulnerability: WebGoat - The Top Ten WebApp vulnerabilities - Common error on developing Web Application: Authentication mechanisms not "secure" Buffer Overflow and crash of the service Thief of identity: Cross Site Scripting Manipulation of company data: SQL Injection Reserved information: misconfiguration Bad session management and thief of identity - OWASP-Italy: projects and next challenges

The meeting is hold at: Via Volturno, 65 (Rome) - Auditorium ATAC http://www.isacaroma.it/html/GiornateDiStudio.html

You can download the presentation here.

March 21th, 2005 - OWASP-Italy conducts a seminar in AlmaWeb
March, the 21th OWASP-Italy has been invited at the University of Bologna to conduct a seminar regards to Master in Management and Information Technology titled “Web Application Security and OWASP”.

Here is the agenda: - OWASP &amp; Web Application Security - Common Web Application Vulnerabilities - A real case of web application vulnerability: MMS Spoofing&amp;Billing - Training: WebGoat

October 2009 Interview on "Il sole 24 ore"
Gary McGraw and Matteo Meucci interviewed by NOVA, talking about BSIMM and OWASP.

March, 2007 Interview on HTML.it
Luca Carettoni has published an interview to OWASP-Italy (OWASP interviews OWASP :) ) Here the full article.

October, 2006 ISACA Roma interviews OWASP-Italy
After the speeches that OWASP-Italy has done at SMAU E-Academy 2006, ISACA Roma has interviewed some of the people of the Italian chapter. Follow the links for the full interviews (in italian): [Matteo Meucci] [Alberto Revelli] [Antonio Parata] [Paolo Perego] [Stefano Di Paola &amp; Giorgio Fedon]

Aug, 2006 - Article on Banca Finanza magazine
Banca Finanza, the italian magazine about finance and banking, has interviewed Raoul Chiesa talking about the new risks for the on-line banking security. Raoul speaks about OWASP and web application security [[Media:042006BF.pdf]]

June, 2006 - Quaderno CLUSIT
CLUSIT has published a book entitled: "La verifica della sicurezza di applicazioni Web-based e il progetto OWASP". Several OWASP-Italy members (R.Chiesa, L.De Santis, M.Graziani, L.Legato, M.Meucci, A.Revelli) have contributed to the writing. The document is now reserved to CLUSIT members, but it will be public in about 3 months.

June, 2006 - Paper on SQL Injection and Inference on PHP/MySQLInference
Antonio "s4tan" Parata has published an article about SQL Injection based on Inference for testing web application on PHP/MySQL platform. Hereyou can read the full article.

May, 2006 - Published an article about OWASP and Top-10 Vulnerabilities
Luca Carettoni has published the article "La sicurezza delle applicazioni Web secondo l'Open Web Application Security Project". Hereyou can read the full article.

June, 2005 - OWASP Pen Test Checklist v 1.1 in Italian
Thanks to Massimiliano Graziani we have translated in italian the "OWASP Pen Test Checklist v.1.1". You can download it here. Thanks to the collaboration with CLUSIT, this doc is available also here.

May, 2005 - Isaca Roma Newsletter about OWASP-Italy
ISACA Roma Newsletter has published an interview to OWASP-Italy

April, 2005 - Published "MMS Spoofing"
We have published a presentation describing a detailed case study of a web application vulnerabilty (MMS Spoofing).

Jim Hewitt, CISSP PMP working at CGI-AMS, affirms (slide#78): "Very interesting analysis of spoofed cell phone messaging and fraudulent billing". See: www.techvalleynyissa.org/Resources/2005_07_WebApplicationSecurity.ppt

April, 2005 - Published an article on ICT Security magazine
We have written an article describing the OWASP projects, Web Application Security and the next challenges. ICT Security.(the italian magazine about Information Security) has published the article on the number 33 - April 2005.

March, 2005 - OWASP Top-10 in Italian
Thanks to Matteo Paolelli we have translated the "OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilties in Web Application Security" in italian language. You can download it here.

Nov, 2007 - sqlmap v0.5
Bernardo Damele and Daniele Bellucci have released the fifth versions of the tool sqlmap. sqlmap is an automatic SQL injection tool entirely developed in Python. It is capable to perform an extensive database management system back-end fingerprint, retrieve remote DBMS databases, usernames, tables, columns, enumerate entire DBMS, read system files and much more taking advantage of web application programming security flaws that lead to SQL injection vulnerabilities.

You can download the latest stable version from its SourceForge File List page or the latest development version from its SourceForge SVN repository.

Dec, 2006 - sqlmap v0.2
Bernardo Damele and Daniele Bellucci have released a second version of the tool "sqlmap" for Automatic Blind SQL Injection. Here you can download the tool

September, 2006 - Wisec Project
Stefano Di Paola is developing Wisec - The Wiki Security Project Here you can accesses the project.

July, 2006 - Sqlmap v0.0.1
Daniele Bellucci has developed a first version of the tool "sqlmap" for Automatic Blind SQL Injection. Here you can download the tool