Israel

Next Meeting: September 5th, at Watchfire, Herzeliya
'''Save the day! 5/9, 17:00'''

The next meeting of OWASP Israel will be held on September 5th at 17:00. This time Watchfire will host and sponsor the meeting. But don't rush to bring a map: it is the building adjacent to Breach in Herzeliya. Thanks to Ory Segal from Watchfire for organizing that.

The event will be part of the global security week (September 3rd-9th: http://www.globalsecurityweek.com/). In this OWASP holds mini conference and chapter meetings around the world and so will we.

Call for presenters

If you would like to present in the meeting, please send me (ofers@breach.com) details of the presentation.

2nd OWASP IL mini conference at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, May 21th 2007
The 2nd OWASP IL mini conference was herd at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya on May 21th 2007. The event was a huge success with over a 150 people attending and 8 companies and organizations sponsoring the event. The feedback for the carefully selected presentations presentations, all of them relevant, informative and most importantly none commercial was great.

Conference program and presentations download

Pictures from the conference

The meeting was sponsored by Breach Security, Checkpoint, Hacktics, Microsoft, Zend, 2Bsecure, F5 Networks and the Efi Arazi school of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.



6th OWASP IL meeting, January 24th 2007
The 6th OWASP IL meeting was held on January 24th 2007, at 17:15, at Breach Security offices in Herzelya and was sponsored by Breach Security. The meeting was very successful, with nearly 50 people attending the meeting.

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.

OWASP IL mini conference at IDC, November 13th 2006
OWASP IL and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) held a half day conference on application security on Nov 13th 2006. The event marked the establishment of a new academic program on information security in the net era at IDC's Efi Arazi School of Computer Science. More than 90! people attended the conference, enjoyed professional catering and heard no less than 7 presentations.

Conference program and presentations download

The meeting was sponsored by Breach Security and Applicure Technologies.



4th OWASP IL meeting, July 26th 2006
The 4th OWASP IL meeting was held on July 26th 2006 at Breach Security offices with the following presentations: [[Media:OWASP_IL_0706_Comsec_ShayZ_Crypto_1_0_2.pdf|Exposing cryptography for software developers]]

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.

The presentation was originally given at OWASP Europe conference in May.

[[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.