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Everyone is welcome to join us at our chapter meetings.

Thursday, March 8th 2012 (Royal Holloway)
Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Room BLT2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

Watch this space - dates for the rest of the year will be added as these are confirmed.

Thursday, February 2nd 2012 ,18:30-21:00
Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Bourne Lecture Theatre 2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

Speakers: Sarah Baso, Dinis Cruz, Dennis Groves


 * Security as Pollution (lessons learned) - Dinis Cruz
 * Based on David Rice's "Upon the Threshold of Opportunity" presentation at the OWASP AppSec USA 2010


 * Making Security Invisible by Becoming the Developer's Best Friends - Dinis Cruz
 * Based on Dinis' presentation at OWASP AppSec Brazil 2011


 * How to get a job in AppSec by Hacking and fixing TeamMentor - Dinis Cruz and Dennis Groves
 * This is for students and developers who want to get into the application security space and need to have/show real-world experience.


 * What's Happening on OWASP Today - Sarah Baso
 * This is an overview of the multiple activities that are currently happening around the world at OWASP presented by one of OWASP's employees currently focused on logistics, community and empowerment

Thursday, September 8th 2011
Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Bourne Lecture Theatre 2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

Speaker: Daniel Cuthbert (deck)

Title: Doing it for the Lulz: Why Lulzsec has shown us to be an ineffective industry.

Bio: Daniel Cuthbert is one of the Open Web Application Security Project Leaders and the Assessment manager for SensePost. He has been researching, and involved, with web application security since the late 90’s and has worked on a wide range of projects to ensure that the development life cycle is secure and the overall application can withstand today’s hackers.

Directions to Royal Holloway and a Campus Plan are available from the following website (Bourne LT 2 is in building 31 on the Campus Plan).

Friday, June 3rd 2011
Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Room BLT2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX


 * Wordpress Security - Steve Lord ([[Media:Wordpress-security-ext.pdf|PDF]])
 * Wordpress is one if the most popular blogging systems in the world but is routinely used to shoehorn complex sites into a blog shaped box, often because of it's flexibility and ease of use. In this talk, Mandalorian's Steve Lord discusses common Wordpress security snafus and how to avoid them.