Israel

8th OWASP IL Chapter Meeting at Watchfire, Herzliya, Wednesday, September 5th 2007, 16:45
The next meeting of OWASP IL, The Israeli Chapter of OWASP, would be held at Watchfire offices in Herzliya on Wednesday, September 5th at 17:00. Watchfire will also sponsor the meeting. The meeting is part of OWASP Day, a Worldwide OWASP one day conferences on Privacy in the 21st Century which is in turn OWASP contribution to the Global Security Week.

Watchfire office is located at 1 Sapir St. Herzeliya Pituach, You can find instructions on how to get to Watchfire office in the [[Media:Owasp_il_map_to_watchfire_offices.gif|map]]. Parking lots which charge a flat reasonable fee are marked on the map.

The agenda of the meeting is:

16:45 – 17:00 Gathering and refreshments

17:00 – 17:15 OWASP Updates

17:15 – 18:00 Straight from Blackhat: Dangling Pointers

Jonathan Afek, Senior Security Researcher, Watchfire

Jonthan will bring to us his acclaimed Blackhat presentation. Dangling pointers are a common programming error, but even OWASP experts assumed, until now, that exploiting this vulnerability can lead only to crashes and therefore only to denial of service attacks (see OWASP vulnerability guide). The research team at Watchfire proved that dangling pointers can be exploited to take control of a vulnerable system, elevating the severity of dangling pointers.

The presentation will explain the vulnerability and demonstrate a real exploit of the vulnerability using IIS as an example.

18:00 – 18:15 Break

18:15 – 19:00 Evasive Crimeware attacks, Business drivers, and Proposed Defense

Iftach Amit, Director Security Research, Finjan

Any web based attack requires a business model in order to spread. As the director of research for Finjan, Iftach monitors the highly successful web attacks focusing on client abuse and malware installation and the community that creates them. In the presentation Iftach will share with us his research findings.

The presentation will cover the business drivers of client side attack vectors, explore recent examples of such attacks with an eye-opening review of the attacker community and its operation methods, and conclude with a technical discussion of the cat and mouse game between cutting edge solutions and ever advancing attack vectors.

19:00 – 19:30 Content Injection as a solution for client side browser vulnerabilities

Ofer Shezaf, OWASP IL Leader; CTO, Breach Security, Breach Security

As we have seen in Iftach's presentation, clients are not very secure. While we, as web site owners, may not be directly responsible, this situation is just as much a problem for us: law might hold us responsible and the conquered and potentially trusted client may pose a risk to our web site. Good examples of problems which blurs the lines between client and server are the Universal PDF XSS and Cross Site Request Forgery.

Content Injection is a method proposed by Ivan Ristic, the creator of ModSecurity to enable a Web Application Firewall to protect against this family of problems. The presentation will explain this novel method and build on it to offer some practical recipes for protection against client side problems.

Previous Chapter Meetings
2nd OWASP IL mini conference at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, May 21th 2007 - The event was a huge success with nearly 200 people attending and 8 companies and organizations sponsoring the event (Breach Security, Checkpoint, Hacktics, Microsoft, Zend, 2Bsecure, F5 Networks and the Efi Arazi school of Computer Science at the IDC).

You can review the conference program and presentations and view pictures from the conference.

6th OWASP IL chapter meeting - the meeting was help at Breach Security on January 24th 2007 and was sponsored by Breach Security. Nearly 50 people attended the meeting.

Meeting program and presentations.

OWASP IL mini conference at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, 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. The meeting was sponsored by Breach Security and Applicure.

Conference program and presentations.

4th OWASP IL chapter meeting - the meeting was help at Breach Security on July 26th 2005 and was sponsored by Breach Security.

Meeting program and presentations.