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Podcast 1
From OWASP
Recorded November 21, 2008
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 Instructor 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
- Jeremiah gave up on browser security - Robert bailed on the summit - Talked with Adobe rep - Figured out the charter for ISWG - Press coverage is hilarious
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