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On September 21st, 2006 we will hold our first formal meeting. Time and coordinates for the meeting are below. WHAT: The re-inaugural San Francisco OWASP Chapter Meeting.

WHEN: September 21st, 2006 5:30-6:00          Social- Food and Drinks 6:00-6:15		 Chapter Announcements 6:15-7:15          Presentation I- Alex Stamos 7:15-7:30          Q and A/Stretch Break 7:30-8:30		 Presentation II- Jeremiah Grossman 8:30-8:45		 Q and A/Wrap Up

WHERE: iSEC Partners offices located @ 115 Sansome Street Suite 1005 (10th Floor), San Francisco, CA (http://www.isecpartners.com)

WHY: To network, socialize and learn more about Web Application Security

WHO: Brian Christian the Chapter president will give chapter details and Alex Stamos founding partner of iSEC Partners and Jeremiah Grossman founder and Chief Technology Officer of WhiteHat Security will both speak about AJAX Security and Javascript Malware. These are the same presentations that they gave in Las Vegas at BlackHat so if you missed them there, here's your second chance! Refreshments and horderves will be provided. Parking, of course will NOT be validated. See below for the speakers details.

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Breaking AJAX Web Applications: Vulns 2.0 in Web 2.0 Alex Stamos, Principal Partner, iSEC Partners

The Internet industry is currently riding a new wave of investor and consumer excitement, much of which is built upon the promise of "Web 2.0" technologies giving us faster, more exciting, and more useful web applications. One of the fundamentals of "Web 2.0" is known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), which is an amalgam of techniques developers can use to give their applications the level of interactivity of client-side software with the platform-independence of JavaScript.

Unfortunately, there is a dark side to this new technology that has not been properly explored. The tighter integration of client and server code, as well as the invention of much richer downstream protocols that are parsed by the web browser has created new attacks as well as made classic web application attacks more difficult to prevent.

We will discuss XSS, Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF), parameter tampering and object serialization attacks in AJAX applications, and will publicly release an AJAX-based XSRF attack framework. We will also be releasing a security analysis of several popular AJAX frameworks, including Microsoft Atlas, JSON-RPC and SAJAX. The talk will include live demos against vulnerable web applications, and will be appropriate for attendees with a basic understanding of HTML and JavaScript.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Alex Stamos is a founding partner of iSEC Partners, LLC, a strategic digital security organization. Alex is an experienced security engineer and consultant specializing in application security and securing large infrastructures, and has taught multiple classes in network and application security. He is a leading researcher in the field of web application and web services security and has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences such as Black Hat, CanSecWest, DefCon, SyScan, Microsoft BlueHat and OWASP App Sec. He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Hacking Intranet Websites from the Outside "JavaScript malware just got a lot more dangerous" Jeremiah Grossman, Founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security, Inc.

Imagine you're visiting a popular website and invisible JavaScript exploit code steals your cookies, captures your keystrokes, and monitors every web page that you visit. Then, without your knowledge or consent, your web browser is silently hijacked to transfer out bank funds, hack other websites, or post derogatory comments in a public forum. No traces, no tracks, no warning sirens. In 2005's "Phishing with Superbait" presentation we demonstrated that all these things were in fact possible using nothing more than some clever JavaScript. And as bad as things are already, further web application security research is revealing that outsiders can also use these hijacked browsers to exploit intranet websites.

Most of us assume while surfing the Web that we are protected by firewalls and isolated through private NAT'ed IP addresses. We assume the soft security of intranet websites and that the Web-based interfaces of routers, firewalls, printers, IP phones, payroll systems, etc. even if left unpatched, remain safe inside the protected zone. We believe nothing is capable of directly connecting in from the outside world. Right? Well, not quite.

Web browsers can be completely controlled by any web page, enabling them to become launching points to attack internal network resources. The web browser of every user on an enterprise network becomes a stepping stone for intruders. Now, imagine visiting a web page that contains JavaScript malware that automatically reconfigures your company's routers or firewalls, from the inside, opening the internal network up to the whole world. Even worse, common Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities make it possible for these attacks to be launched from just about any website we visit and especially those we trust. The age of web application security malware has begun and it's critical that understand what it is and how to defend against it.

During this presentation we'll demonstrate a wide variety of cutting-edge web application security attack techniques and describe best practices for securing websites and users against these threats.

You'll see:

Port scanning and attacking intranet devices using JavaScript Blind web server fingerprinting using unique URLs Discovery NAT'ed IP addresses with Java Applets Stealing web browser history with Cascading Style Sheets

Best-practice defense measures for securing websites Essential habits for safe web surfing ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Jeremiah Grossman is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of WhiteHat Security (http://www.whitehatsec.com), where he is responsible for web application security R&D and industry evangelism. As an well-known and internationally recognized security expert, Mr. Grossman is a frequent speaker at the Black Hat Briefings, ISSA, ISACA, NASA, and many other industry events. Mr. Grossman's research, writing, and interviews have been published in dozens of publications including USA Today, VAR Business, NBC, ABC News (AU), ZDNet, eWeek, Computerworld and BetaNews. Mr. Grossman is also a founder of the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), as well as a contributing member of the Center for Internet Security Apache Benchmark Group. Prior to WhiteHat, Mr. Grossman was an information security officer at Yahoo!, responsible for performing security reviews on the company's hundreds of websites.