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Thursday, 18 May 2017
Good news! Edinburgh University is kindly providing us with meeting space for the next OWASP Scotland chapter meeting. We have an excellent talk lined up by Boglarka on MFA and a second speaker should be confirmed in the near future. If you are attending please register so we can keep an eye on the numbers.

Time: 18:30

Location: Ground floor main lecture room,

Informatics Forum,

10 CrichtonStreet,

Edinburgh,

EH8 9AB

Twice the pride, double the fall – why 2FA / MFA isn’t the cure we all thought it was.

Speaker: Boglarka Ronto

The security industry has been preaching the mantra of MFA for almost a decade. Indeed, many implementations have surfaced, some better than others, with all of these intending to add to the level of security of an existing solution (i.e. external logon interface).

The trust in such services appears to be unquestioned: companies are looking for cheap, simple and easily manageable solutions and rarely consider the actual level of security associated with the product of their choice.

This talk discusses ways of testing MFA solutions and includes a few case studies of broken and poor MFA implementations, including one which allowed SMS validation to be bypassed completely at an application level (no physical proximity or cloned phones required).

Speaker no. 2 TBC

To attend, please register here for the event:https://owasp-scotland-chapter-meeting-may-2017-tickets.eventbrite.co.uk

Friday, 3 March 2017
Virtual event kicking off the year for the Scotland chapter.

Time: 12:00

Event Signup: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/owasp-scotland-chapter-meeting-march-2017-tickets-32070062420

The following talks will be given:

Penetration testing: a beginners paradise.
Ever wondered how to go from getting a certificate in penetration testing, or some tinkering in your spare time actually doing it as a full time job? Come and get answers as Andrew Scott (Head of Security Testing for an international bank) spills the beans. How did he get into testing, what other ways in are there? How do you sell yourself to prospective employers and make sure you are ready to do what they want to pay you for, not just what you want to do.

CSRF - Imitation is The Best Form of Flattery
Despite appearing at number 8 in the OWASP Top 10 list (2013 version), CSRF vulnerabilities are still prevalent in a multitude of applications. What is CSRF? And why is this the case? What can be done to mitigate it? Sean Wright (Lead Security Engineer at security MSP) will give you the details to those very questions and more.

Sponsors
The OWASP Scotland chapter now has a sponsor which is Sopra Group