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OWASP Cambridge
Welcome to the Cambridge chapter homepage. The chapter leaders are Adrian Winckles and Steven van der Baan.
Participation
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Local News
Cambridge OWASP Chapter Meeting
Tuesday 12th November 2013 17:30 – 20:30 (Anglia Ruskin University, East ROad, Cambridge LAB002/LAB107)
Hosted by the Department of Computing & Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Cambridge Chapter and IEEE Industrial Electronics Chapter
Guest speaker(s):
Paul Cain: Over 12 years experience working in the field of computer forensics. Cutting the bytes within law enforcement more recently within a commercial environment. Conducting investigations on digital devices, providing witness evidence in court and author / teacher of the 7Safe forensic courses.
James Forshaw: James is the Head of Vulnerability Research at Context Information Security in the UK. He has been involved with computer hardware and software security for over 10 years with a skill set which covers the bread and butter of the security industry such as application testing, through to more bespoke product assessment, vulnerability analysis and exploitation. He has numerous public vulnerabilities disclosures in many different products including web browser issues and virtual machine breakouts as well as being a Pwn2Own and Microsoft Mitigation Bypass bounty winner.
He has spoken at a number of security conferences in the past, on a range of different topics such including managed language security at Blackhat USA, CanSecWest and Bluehat, Sony Playstation Portable hacking at Chaos Computer Congress, WebGL exploitation at Ruxcon and Citrix network exploitation at Blackhat Europe. He is also the developer of the free CANAPE networking analysis and exploitation tool.
Agenda
17:30 – 17:45 Welcome from the OWASP Cambridge Chapter Leader, Adrian Winckles, Senior Lecturer in Information Security, Anglia Ruskin University
17:45 – 18:30 Paul Cain (7Safe, PA Consulting) - Tracking Data using Forensics
18:30 – 19:15 James Forshaw (Context Information Security) - The Forger's Art: Exploiting XML Digital Signature Implementations
19:15 – 19:30 Q & A
19:30 – 20:00 Refreshments & Networking (coffee, tea, juice) in LAB006
Registration:
To register for this free event, please register online at
[1] Cambridge Chapter Registration
The conference will be held in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Room LAB107 (Breakout Room LAB006 for networking & refreshments).
Please enter through the Helmore Building and ask at reception.
Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Campus East Road Cambridge CB1 1PT
Get further information on travelling to the university.
Meeting Location
Everyone is welcome to join us at our chapter meetings.
Next talks
| Name Speaker | Paul Cain |
|---|---|
| Bio | Over 12 years experience working in the field of computer forensics.
Cutting the bytes within law enforcement more recently within a commercial environment. Conducting investigations on digital devices, providing witness evidence in court and author / teacher of the 7Safe forensic courses. |
| Title | Tracking Data using Forensics |
| Abstract | IP data theft is becoming more common. Many data compromises are exploited from the internal threat. Using case studies this presentation will demonstrate forensic artefacts to provide some answers to how and what data was taken. |
| Name Speaker | James Forshaw |
| Bio | James is the Head of Vulnerability Research at Context Information Security in the UK. He has been involved with computer hardware and software security for over 10 years with a skill set which covers the bread and butter of the security industry such as application testing, through to more bespoke product assessment, vulnerability analysis and exploitation. He has numerous public vulnerabilities disclosures in many different products including web browser issues and virtual machine breakouts as well as being a Pwn2Own and Microsoft Mitigation Bypass bounty winner.
He has spoken at a number of security conferences in the past, on a range of different topics such including managed language security at Blackhat USA, CanSecWest and Bluehat, Sony Playstation Portable hacking at Chaos Computer Congress, WebGL exploitation at Ruxcon and Citrix network exploitation at Blackhat Europe. He is also the developer of the free CANAPE networking analysis and exploitation tool. |
| Title | The Forger's Art: Exploiting XML Digital Signature Implementations |
| Abstract | Many security critical systems rely on the correct implementation of the XML Digital Signature standard for the purposes of verification and identity management. Technologies such as SAML and Web Service Security use the standard, and its sibling XML Encryption, to manage the security of these technologies. Being a standard there is, unsurprisingly, no canonical implementation for any platform or language, with so many different developments there are likely to be differences in how the standard is interpreted.
While a fair amount research has been done into the effects of the standard such as it allowing signature wrapping attacks, these tend to be exposed due to poor usages of the XML Digital Signature libraries. Comparatively little research has been undertaken in the implementations themselves, how they diverge from the standard, how they ensure security and whether there are any vulnerabilities in the implementations themselves. This presentation is about research done against the main open and closed source implementations of XML Digital Signatures, how they can be exploited to gain remote code execution, signature verification bypass or denial of service. It will show some of the more nasty vulnerabilities found during the research including a novel attack against the built-in Java and .NET libraries which allow for trivial signature spoofing exposing any user of those implementations into accepting an invalid signature which is independent of their usage. |
| Date | Name / Title | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 5th March 2013 | Sarantis Makoudis / Android (in)Security | presentation |
| 5th March 2013 | Nikhil Sreekumar / Power On, Powershell | presentation |
