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OWASP Cambridge
Welcome to the Cambridge chapter homepage. The chapter leaders are Adrian Winckles and Steven van der Baan.
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Cambridge OWASP Chapter Meeting
Tuesday 8th March 2016 17:45 – 20:30, Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB003), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Hosted by the Department of Computing & Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) East Anglia Branch and OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Cambridge Chapter
Guest speakers: Andrew Lee-Thorp - Cigital
Andrew Lee-Thorp is a security consultant with over 10 years of experience cutting his teeth in development from smart cards through to high-end servers systems. He currently works as a Consultant with Cigital Ltd where he performs code reviews, architectural risk analysis, and Android testing. Andrew's strategic focus is in developing assessment tooling and improving mobile testing capability within the company where he works. Andrew holds a postgraduate degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Information Security.
Title : Trying (and failing) to secure the Internet of Things
The (Android) WebView is an embeddable component that powers the majority of internet-enabled apps. In Android, WebViews are currently a hot topic but for all the wrong reasons. WebViews make connections, render HTML and run JavaScript and so can be attacked using traditional web attacks like connection hijacking and XSS. Secondly, WebView-enabled apps combine local resources with web-based content that are rendered in the same container. This makes a Same Origin Policy bypass far more dangerous: it can mean access to the local device file-system and juicy local user data that you thought was sandboxed. Malicious code can even target other applications remotely by using the WebView as a proxy. Finally WebViews create residual risks that simply cannot be mitigated through any in-app technical control. This talk is aimed at both testers and developers. They learn some fundamental WebView mistakes, how to attack them, how to fix them and which vulnerabilities simply must be accepted in this design.
Agenda
17:30 - 17:45 Welcome from the OWASP Cambridge Chapter Leader & "Introduction to the OWASP IoT Project" Adrian Winckles, Course Leader in Information Security & Forensic Computing, Anglia Ruskin University
17:45 - 19:00 Andrew Lee-Thorp, Cigital “So you want to use a WebView? Android WebView: Attack and Defence”
19:00 - 21:00 Refreshments & Networking (coffee, tea, juice) in LAB006
Registration:
To register for this free event, please register online here
The conference will be held in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Room LAB002 (Breakout Room LAB006 for networking & refreshments).
Please enter through the Helmore Building and ask at reception.
Meeting Location
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge Campus
East Road
Cambridge
CB1 1PT
Get further information on travelling to the university.
Everyone is welcome to join us at our chapter meetings.
Planned dates for upcoming events
Tuesday 12th April 2016
| Date | Name / Title | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 11 2015 | Steve Lord / Trying (and failing) to secure the Internet of Things | ||
| John Mersh / Software and System Security: a life vest in the IoT ocean | |||
| 10 Oct 2015 | Sumit "sid" Siddharth / Some neat, new and ridiculous hacks from our vault | ||
| 10 Feb 2015 | Steven van der Baan / Web Application Security Testing with Burp Suite | ||
| 2 December 2014 | Colin Watson / OWASP Cornucopia | ||
| 21 October 2014 | Eireann Leverett | presentation | |
| 1st April 2014 | Ian Glover (CREST) / Overview of the CREST activities to professionalise the industry. | ||
| Yiannis Chrysanthou (KPMG) / Modern Password Cracking | |||
| Damien King (KPMG) / Filename Enumeration with TildeTool | |||
| 12th November 2013 | Paul Cain / Tracking Data using Forensics | ||
| 12th November 2013 | James Forshaw/ The Forger's Art: Exploiting XML Digital Signature Implementations | presentation | |
| 5th March 2013 | Sarantis Makoudis / Android (in)Security | presentation | |
| 5th March 2013 | Nikhil Sreekumar / Power On, Powershell | presentation |
