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OWASP NEWS April 2009

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OWASP paid members reach 578 http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_AppSec_Conference Global Committees progress https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Global_Committee_Pages What should the next OWASP Top 10 contain? http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project Upcoming Conferences http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_AppSec_Conference

OWASP AppSec News

 * 4/16 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1338343


 * http://www.cigital.com/justiceleague/2009/04/16/software-security-2008/ Gary McGraw uses statistics to show that Software Security has come of age


 * 4/17 http://research.zscaler.com/2009/04/we-used-to-laugh-at-xss.html


 * Michael Sutton discusses history of XSS from Defcon 10 (2002) to the present day (Twitter worm)


 * 4/17 http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2009/04/software-security-grew-to-nearly-500m.html


 * Jeremiah uses McDonalds and Mortons as comparatives for black-box vs. white-box security testing


 * 4/17 http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2009/04/website-threats-and-their-capabilities.html


 * OWASP Catalyst announced


 * 4/20 http://paco.to/?p=305


 * Paco lists 5 reasons for software certifications


 * 4/20 http://www.greensheet.com/newswire.php?newswire_id=11693


 * Qualys, Inc., the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced QualysGuard(R) PCI Connect which is the industry's first Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) ecosystem for PCI compliance connecting merchants to multiple partners and security solutions in order to document and meet all 12 requirements for PCI DSS


 * 4/20 http://labs.securitycompass.com/index.php/2009/04/20/security-analysis-of-core-j2ee-design-patterns/


 * Rohit Sethi of SecurityCompass posts a blog post on a new Security Compass Labs blog about "Security Analysis of Core Java Enterprise Patterns"


 * 4/21 http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd7x5smw_16hdd34ggz
 * mario heiderich posts some results of browser fuzzing on extraneous characters in tags


 * 4/22 http://plynt.com/blog/2009/04/how-frequently-should-an-appli/


 * The Plynt blog asks the question, "How frequently shoud Applications be Tested?"


 * 4/24 http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Man_vs._Code


 * Mike Boberski of the OWASP ASVS Project posts a wiki article about using Notepad++ to syntax highlight PHP code


 * 4/25 http://shreeraj.blogspot.com/2009/04/web2proxy-beta-web-20-application-proxy.html


 * Shreeraj Shah releases a new tool, Web2Proxy, which is a Web 2.0 Application Proxy, Profiling, and Fuzzing Tool


 * 4/26 http://enablesecurity.com/2009/04/26/the-state-of-web-application-security-and-their-firewalls/


 * Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique from Trustwave and Sandro Gauchi of EnableSecurity spoke at TROOPERS09 in Munch about "The Truth of Web Application Firewalls: what the vendors do NOT want you to know"


 * 4/27 http://tacticalwebappsec.blogspot.com/2009/04/scanner-and-waf-data-sharing.html


 * Ryan Barnett gives guidance on how best to make VA+WAF work together


 * 4/27 http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_PCI_Project


 * Ed Bellis and Trey Ford start a PCI effort to ensure their activities uniformly meet PCI requirements, and for those getting started - to aid in building a website security strategy that also ensures sustainable PCI compliance.