2012 02 01 Manchester

Manchester Chapter meeting 2012 February 1st

This meeting was kindly hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

OWASP Chapter introduction. OWASP values and membership. Chapter information.

Slides: File:OWASP Manchester 12 02 10 intro.pptx

Simon Bennetts OWASP Manchester board member

Talk: An Introduction to the OWASP Top Ten

Slides: File:OWASP Manchester 12 02 10 Top Ten.pptx

The OWASP Top Ten provides a powerful awareness document for web application security. The OWASP Top Ten represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are.

In this presentation Simon will give an introduction to each of the top 10 security flaws and explain why they are so dangerous.

Speaker: Simon Bennetts

Talk: Evaluating iOS Applications

Slides: File:Evaluating iOS Applications.pdf

In this presentation, Dominic will discuss the lessons learned from evaluating iOS applications. It will cover a brief introduction to the security features of the platform and how they affect mobile applications then delve in to details on some of the most common iOS vulnerabilities the author has experienced during testing.

Speaker: Dominic Chell - MDSec

Dominic is the co-owner and director of MDSec; a security consultancy based in the UK. Prior to this, Dominic worked at NGS Software for 6 years where he was a CHECK Team Leader & CREST consultant. Dominic has published numerous exploits and advisories over the years as well as given web application security training at BlackHat Vegas.