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'''General Topic'''
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'''[[OWASP_Podcast | OWASP Podcast Series]] #1'''
* Input Validation Strategies (Jeff)
 
  
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<b>Recorded November 21, 2008</b><br/>
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[http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=300769012 http://images.apple.com/itunes/overview/images/overview-icon-itunes20081106.jpg] [http://www.owasp.org/download/jmanico/podcast.xml https://www.owasp.org/images/d/d3/Feed-icon-32x32.png] [http://www.owasp.org/download/jmanico/owasp_podcast_1.mp3 direct download]
  
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== Participants ==
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- Arshan Dabirsiaghi is the the Director of Research for Aspect Security.
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- Jeremiah Grossman is the CTO of Whitehat.
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- Jim Manico is a Web Application Architect and Security Engineer for Aspect Security.
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- Jeff Williams is the CEO of Aspect Security and also volunteers as one of the chairs of the OWASP Foundation.
  
'''Articles'''
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== Recap OWASP EU Summit ==
* Web Application Firewall Debate (Arshan)
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- Talked with Adobe rep
** http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/06/can-wafs-protect-against-business-logic.html
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- Figured out the charter for ISWG
** http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2008/06/27/week-of-war-on-wafs-day-5-final-thoughts/
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- OWASP Live CD http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Live_CD_Project
* Disclosure (Eric)
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- Press coverage is hilarious
** http://www.darkreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=403&doc_id=157993
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- OWASP Education Project http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Education_Project
** http://hackademix.net/2008/07/01/yahoos-attitude-encouraging-zero-day-full-disclosure/
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- [http://www.google.com/trends?q=xss%2C+clickjacking Clickjacking trends]
* PCI 6.6 is Required(Andrew)
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** http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200827/1354/Today-s-the-day-PCI-DSS-section-6-6-is-required
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== Builder vs Breaker ==
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- is this a real skill gap?
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- easier to build/defend
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- fixing stuff is boring (kuza55)
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==  We've reached Application Security Tipping Point ==
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- Chris Wysopal (Zero in a bit)
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- Attacks are getting simpler (and we're barely fixing old vulns)
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- Assets are moving more and more to the web
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- New technology  =  make all same mistakes again
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- Aspect never wanted to be NGS - but everything is broken
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- Just this morning, hilarious SSO product bypass (thats all we'll say, not method/verb tampering)
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== Canonicalization is a nightmare ==  
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- mod_security turns off Unicode validation by default
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- another commercial WAF bypassable by default with invalid UTF-8
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- any byte-based validation is failure on the web (or unmanaged langs)
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== Securing WebGoat with mod_security ==
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- Summer of Code project with Stephen Craig Evans
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- very interesting Lua scripting capability
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- stateful WAFing is possible with Lua
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- [http://blog.modsecurity.org/2008/12/helping-protect-cookies-with-httponly-flag.html Modsecurity and HTTPOnly]

Latest revision as of 02:34, 31 January 2009

OWASP Podcast Series #1

Recorded November 21, 2008

overview-icon-itunes20081106.jpg Feed-icon-32x32.png direct download

Participants

- Arshan Dabirsiaghi is the the Director of Research for Aspect Security.
- Jeremiah Grossman is the CTO of Whitehat.
- Jim Manico is a Web Application Architect and Security Engineer for Aspect Security. 
- Jeff Williams is the CEO of Aspect Security and also volunteers as one of the chairs of the OWASP Foundation.

Recap OWASP EU Summit

- Talked with Adobe rep
- Figured out the charter for ISWG
- OWASP Live CD http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Live_CD_Project
- Press coverage is hilarious
- OWASP Education Project http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Education_Project
- Clickjacking trends

Builder vs Breaker

- is this a real skill gap?
- easier to build/defend
- fixing stuff is boring (kuza55)

We've reached Application Security Tipping Point

- Chris Wysopal (Zero in a bit)
- Attacks are getting simpler (and we're barely fixing old vulns)
- Assets are moving more and more to the web
- New technology  =  make all same mistakes again
- Aspect never wanted to be NGS - but everything is broken
- Just this morning, hilarious SSO product bypass (thats all we'll say, not method/verb tampering)

Canonicalization is a nightmare

- mod_security turns off Unicode validation by default
- another commercial WAF bypassable by default with invalid UTF-8
- any byte-based validation is failure on the web (or unmanaged langs)

Securing WebGoat with mod_security

- Summer of Code project with Stephen Craig Evans
- very interesting Lua scripting capability
- stateful WAFing is possible with Lua
- Modsecurity and HTTPOnly