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OWASP Europe Tour - Dublin 2013

Tuesday 25th June (Training. Info about the training session)
Wednesday 26th June (Conference)

• Apart from OWASP's Top 10, most OWASP Projects are not widely used and understood. In most cases this is not due to lack of quality and usefulness of those Document & Tool projects, but due to a lack of understanding of where they fit in an Enterprise's security ecosystem or in the Web Application Development Life-cycle.

• This event aims to change that by providing a selection of mature and enterprise ready projects together with practical examples of how to use them.

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Venue Address: 32 - 34 Castle Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Venue Map: Google Maps

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard. HTML5, and its integration with JavaScript, introduces new security risks that we need to carefully consider when writing web front-end code. Modern web-based software, including mobile web front-end applications, makes heavy use of innovative JavaScript and HTML5 browser support to deliver advanced user experiences. Front-end developers focus their efforts on creating this experience and are generally not aware of the security implications of the technologies they use.

The Defensive Programming – JavaScript/HTML5 course helps web front-end developers understand the risks involved with manipulating the HTML Document Object Model (DOM) and using the advanced features of JavaScript and HTML 5 such as cross-domain requests and local storage. The course reinforces some important security aspects of modern browser architecture and presents the student with defensive programming techniques that can be immediately applied to prevent common vulnerabilities from being introduced. Additionally, the course provides a detailed description of typical JavaScript sources and sinks and explains how they can be used to detect problems in code.

For more information about the training please see Further training information

Duration: 8 hours (09:00h - 18:00h)

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Venue Address: 32 - 34 Castle Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Venue Map: Google Maps

Registration Link to the Europe Tour: Register Here

We see a lot of defects in software and they fall broadly into two categories: bugs or flaws. How well we understand the defects and our correct categorisation influences how successful we will be fixing them. If we mistake a flaw for a bug and offer a point solution, we'll be back in the same situation as before, only with more broken code. If we mistake a bug for a flaw, we condemn ourselves to reengineering hunks of our system when a localised patch would do. Spend time with Paco Hope analysing defects from real systems. Create rules that distinguish bugs from flaws and cast your vote. Argue about what to do with them. Climb into the ring with that defect and pin it to the mat!

Learning Objectives

• Identify a small set of rules that will help distinguish flaws from bugs
• Classify defects clearly into one class or the other
• Articulate why something belongs in one class or another
• Articulate the difference between flaws and bugs

Pre-Requisites

All security and software developers should be prepared for this. Prior experience in mixed martial arts is not necessary. :)

In this talk we will discuss some of the major ongoing and previous targeted attack campaigns that have been uncovered by Trend Micro in the last year or so, such as Luckycat, Tinba and others. We will discuss in-depth the modus operandi of the criminals in these so called APT attacks, show how we mapped and infiltrated their infrastructure, and demo some of the tools and techniques that we use when carrying out these type of investigations. All of this presentation will focus on real technical details from real cases studies, and this presentation will also include live demos.

KEY QUESTIONS 1) What is the reality (not the hype) of a modern targeted attack
2) You will understand the Modus Operandi of a two main types of Cybercriminals
3) You will understand how investigators and security companies investigate these high profile attacks

Paco Hope is a Principal Consultant at Cigital, helping Fortune 500 companies secure their software for over 10 years in a variety of industries like online gaming, financial services, retail, and embedded systems. He is the author of two books on security, the most recent being the Web Security Testing Cookbook and a frequent conference speaker. As and a member of (ISC)²'s Application Security Advisory Board, he helps create and advise on the direction of the CSSLP certification. His passion is empowering everyone in the software lifecycle—developers, testers, analysts—to make meaningful contributions to the securing of software.

Our testing methodologies are non-consistent and rely on the individual and the tools they use. Currently we treat vulnerabilities like XSS and SQLI as different issues but the root causes it the same. – it’s all code injection theory!!

Why do we do this and make security bugs over complex?
Why are we still happy with “Testing security out” rather than the more superior “building security in”?

We shall also look at mark up attacks which break CSP controls.