Israel

OWASP IL mini conference, Monday, November 13th, together with IDC
OWASP IL is pround to announce a half day conference held together with [IDC] (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya). The conference will be help on IDC campus on Nov 13th, between 14:30 and 19:00.

You are invited to submit suggestions for a presentation for the conference.

OWASP IL meeting, Wednesday, July 26th
Time of the next meeting of OWASP IL!

The meeting will be held on July 26th, 17:15, at [Breach Security] offices, 11th Bareket St. Herzliya. Participation is free and open to all, but please inform us (mail me at ofers@breach.com) that you are coming so room is limited.

Feel free to distribute information regarding this meeting to others in your organization or outside that you think may be interested in the meeting. You can also register to the [OWASP Israel mailing list] in order to receive updates regarding chapter's meetings. For further details please contact me.

17:15 - Gathering, Socializing and Pizzas

17:30 - 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.

18:30 - 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.

19:20 - Questions & Feedback