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Local Chapter Information --- Our Sixth Year
The chapter shipping/mailing address is:

OWASP Boston 35 Wachusett Dr Lexington, MA. 02421

Reviews
Reviews of security podcasts

Chapter Meetings
We usually meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH (Unless a speaker can only present another night), 6:30 to 9 pm.

Everyone is welcome to come to any meeting, there is no signup or joining criteria, just come if it sounds interesting. Feel free to sign up to the OWASP Boston mailing list. This list is very low volume (2 - 3 emails/month); it is used to remind people about each monthly meeting, inform about local application security events and special chapter offers.

Information for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can also be found at BostonUserGroups.

Location
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month ( Unless a speaker can only present another night), 6:30 pm at the Microsoft offices at the Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA.

From Rt. 128 North take exit 26 toward Waltham, East up the hill on Rt. 20. From Rt 128 South take exit 26 but go around the rotary to get to 20 East to Waltham. Follow signs for Rt. 117 (left at the second light). When you get to 117 turn left (West). You will cross back over Rt. 128. Jones Rd. (look for the Waltham Weston Corporate Center sign) is the second left, at a blinking yellow light, on Rt. 117 going west about 0.1 miles from Rt. 128 (I95). The office building is at the bottom of Jones Rd. Best parking is to turn right just before the building and park in the back. Knock on the door to get the security guard to open it. The room is MPR C.

Next Meeting   Wednesday June 2  at Microsoft Waltham
Agenda: 6:30 - 7 - what's happening in OWASP and how it might be useful to you, general Q+A, networking

Presentations

Rob Cheyne Lightning Talk - Cross Site Scripting, Reflected and Persistent

In this installment of the Safelight lightning talks series, Rob will present the basics of Cross-site scripting (XSS). He will cover the two primary methods of XSS attack, reflected and persistent, as well as provide detailed demonstrations that show how an attacker would use these attacks in the real world.

As part of the demo, Rob will go beyond proof of concept and present an example of "weaponized" JavaScript that could be used to steal another user's session information.

After the demo, Rob will provide practical tips for defending against cross-site scripting flaws in your own applications.

Main Presentation - Ryan Barnett The Web Hacking Incident Database 

The Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) is a Web Application Security Consortium project dedicated to maintaining a list of web applications related security incidents. The databsae classifies each reported attack by, among other criteria, the attack method used, the application weakness exploited, the outcome of the attack and the industry and the country of the attacked organization. Based on the database Breach Security Labs, which sponsors WHID, recently issued a periodical report on trends in Web Application Security. By providing answers to questions such as:


 * The drivers behind Web hacking.


 * The application weaknesses that are actively exploited.

The presentation will discuss WHID statistics, focusing on trends in Web Attacks in the 1st quarter of 2010. The presentation will provide an overview of the top items, as well as, an in-depth review of Incidents of Interest.
 * The technology hackers use.
 * The types of organizations attacked most often.
 * The common outcomes

Speaker Bios 

Ryan C. Barnett is the director of application security research at Breach Security where he leads Breach Security Labs. He is a SANS Institute certified instructor and a member of both the Top 20 Vulnerabilities and CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors teams. In addition to working with SANS, he is also a WASC Member where he leads the Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID) and Distributed Open Proxy Honeypots Projects and is also the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) project leader. Mr. Barnett has also authored a Web security book for Addison/Wesley Publishing entitled Preventing Web Attacks with Apache.

Rob Cheyne is founder and CEO of Safelight Security Advisors, a leading information security training company. He is an application security expert who has taught security training classes to over 10,000 developers, architects, and managers, and executives. He has 20 years of information technology experience and has been working in information security since 1998. Rob has a solid combination of business and technical expertise, and over the years, he has played the role of software developer, systems integrator, security expert, consultant, trainer and entrepreneur. Prior to Safelight, Rob was a co-founder of @stake, a highly regarded pioneer in information security consulting. In this role, he led and conducted secure architecture and design reviews, secure code reviews, application penetration tests, and security audits for numerous Fortune 500 companies. He helped develop@stake's application security assessment methodologies, and led @stake's Application Security Center of Excellence for two years. Rob was also a co-author of the award-winning L0phtCrack password auditing software and he worked on @stake's SmartRisk Analyzer team, which was successfully spun-off as Veracode.

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Past Meeting Notes
May 2010

Rob Cheyne Lightning Talk - SQL Injection

Vinnie Liu - Data Exposure, New Approaches to Open Source Intelligence Techniques, and Incident Handling

April 2010

Dan Hestad Security Innovation Dan will be talking about his experiences with PCI and web applications, and answering questions about do's and don'ts of acceptable PCI practices in web applications.

March 2010

Zack Lanier - Disclosure Samsara, or "the endless vulnerability disclosure debate"

http://n0where.org/talks/samsara_20100310.html

http://n0where.org/talks/samsara_20100310.pdf (very large PDF)

February 2010

Rob Cheyne of Safelight Security Advisors; New Technology, Same Old Vulnerabilities

January 2010 at Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Josh Abraham, Rapid 7 Technologies

December 2009

Eric Bender, Cenzic

November 2009

Jim Weiler, Sr. Mgr. Information Security, Starwood Hotels - Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

Mush Hakhinian, Leader, Application Security Practice, IntraLinks - Secure coding with no money down using SONAR: unleashing the power of open-source code analysis tools

October 2009

Paul Schofield, Senior Security Engineer, Imperva - From Rivals to BFF: WAF & VA Unite

September 2009 at CORE Technologies, Boston

Paul Asadoorian, Pauldotcom.com

Alex Horan, CORE Security

May 2009

Joey Peloquin, Fishnet Security, Secure SDLC: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly presentation pdf

March 2009

Sabha Kazerooni, Security Compass - Exploit Me tools; Framework Level Threat Analysis

ExploitMe Document

Framework Level Threat Analysis document

Meeting Pizza Sponsor - Arcot

Arcot is a leader in online fraud prevention, strong authentication and eDocument security. Arcot's solutions are easily deployed, low-cost and extremely scalable, allowing organizations to transparently protect their users from fraud without changing user behavior or requiring expensive hardware.

Arcot can be contacted thru Michael Kreppein, michael.kreppein@arcot.com, 617-467-5200, www.arcot.com

December 2008 Brian Holyfield, Gothem Digital Science

Tamper Proofing Web Applications http://www.gdssecurity.com/l/b/2008/12/04/

June 2008 Jeremiah Grossman; Founder and CTO, Whitehat Security

Appetizer - Hacking Intranets from the Outside (Just when you thought your network was safe) Port scanning with JavaScript

Main Topic - Business Logic Flaws: How they put your Websites at Risk

March 2008 Chris Eng; Senior Director, Security Research, Veracode

Description – Attacking crypto in web applications

December 2007 Scott Matsumoto; Principal Consultant, Cigital

Description – You Say Tomayto and I Say Tomahto – Talking to Developers about Application Security

Cigital Presentation

November 2007 Tom Mulvehill Ounce Labs

Description – Tom will share his knowledge and expertise on implementing security into the software development life cycle. This presentation will cover how to bring practicality into secure software development. Several integration models will be explored as well as solutions for potential obstacles

Ounce presentation

October 2007

George Johnson, Principal Software Engineer EMC; CISSP

An Introduction to Threat Modeling.

September 2007

Day of Worldwide OWASP 1 day conferences on the topic "Privacy in the 21st Century"

June 2007 Tool Talk - Jim Weiler - WebGoat and Crosssite Request Forgeries

Danny Allan; Director, Security Research, Watchfire

Topic: Exploitation of the OWASP Top 10: Attacks and Strategies

March 2007 Jeremiah Grossman,  CTO Whitehat Security:   Top 10 Web Application Hacks of 2006

January 2007 Dave Low, RSA the Security Division of EMC:   encryption case studies

November 2006

September 2006 Mike Gavin, Forrester Research:   Web Application Firewalls

June 2006 Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention

Jim Weiler - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool

May 2006

April 2006

Dennis Hurst; SPI Dynamics: A study of AJAX Hacking

Jim Weiler; OWASP Boston: Using Paros HTTP proxy, part 1. first meeting with all demos, no powerpoints!

March 2006

Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks

Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities

February 2006

Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source

January 2006

David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption

December 2005

Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled

November 2005

Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications

October 2005

Prateek Mishra, Ph.D. Director, Security Standards and Strategy: Oracle Corp Chaiman of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee - Identity Federation : Prospects and Challenges

Ryan Shorter, Sr. System Engineer: Netcontinuum - Application Security Gateways

September 2005

Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security

July 2005

Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - [http://www.owasp.org/docroot/owasp/misc/MarkOneill.pdf Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security]

June 2005

Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools

May 2005

Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom

April 2005

Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers

Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security

March 2005

Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security

Feb 2005

Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.

Boston OWASP Chapter Leaders
President

[mailto:jim.weiler@starwoodhotels.com Jim Weiler] 781 356 0067

Program Committee

Mark Arnold

[mailto:jim.weiler@starwoodhotels.com Jim Weiler] 781 356 0067