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Rochester
OWASP Rochester
Welcome to the Rochester chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Ralf Durkee
Participation
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Local Officers
- President: Ralf Durkee
- Vice President: Chris Karr
- Secretary: Steve Buck
- Web and Communications: Michael Starks
Meeting Times & Location
Meetings are held the third Monday of every month.
Location: Bryant and Stratton Professional Skills Center, 1225 Jefferson Rd, Rochester, NY 14623 (near I-390)
Enter the plaza behind Bill Grays and Tulleys, near the Post Office. Enter the PSC (Professional Skills Center) door which is left of the main entrance door. There will be a sign on the door indicating the room in which we will meet.
October Meeting Details
Date: Monday, October 16, 2006
Presentation: The first of the OWASP top ten: unvalidated input, by Steve Buck.
At this meeting we will be discussing the first of the OWASP top ten list: unvalidated input. We will discuss the problems posed by not validating input on the server side. These problems include: forced browsing, command insertion, cross site scripting, buffer overflows, bypassing site security, format string attacks, SQL injection, cookie poisoning, and hidden field manipulation.
We will cover how to determine if you are vulnerable to one of these attacks, and also how to protect yourself. We will also have a demo of some of these exploits in action. Finally, we will have an open discussion with any questions about the subject matter.
Bio:
Steve Buck is a consultant for Mindex Technologies. He has been working with various web technologies since 1996, involving everything from Perl and C CGIs to J2EE.
Steve has experience as a UNIX system administrator instructor with a specialty in system security.
Past Presentations
April 2006 PGP: Encryption for e-mail and web applications, by Ralph Durkee PDF
February 2006 Identity Theft, Phishing and Pharming, by Danny Allan PDF
February 2006 Secure e-mail, by Thomas Bullinger PDF
January 2006 PCI Compliance, by Pat Massey, Ralf Durkee, Maureen Baran PDF
September 2005 Two Factor Authentication for Java Applications with Client Certificates, by Ralf Durkee PDF Open Office
April 2005 Avoiding Backend Exploitation of Mail Forms, by Max Kessler PowerPoint Open Office
March 2005 Bringing Two-Factor Authentication to Web Applications, by Michael Starks PowerPoint Open Office
February 2005 Insecure Storage, by Chris Karr PowerPoint
January 2005 Access Control and Session Mgmnt, by Steve Buck PowerPoint Open Office
November 2004 Intro to OWASP by Ralf Durkee. Demonstration of SQL Injection attack and prevention, by Paul Cupo PowerPoint
