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Hong Kong
OWASP Hong Kong
Welcome to the Hong Kong chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Anthony LAI,CISSP,CISA
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The Hong Kong chapter was formed in December 2004. The objectives to establish OWASP Hong Kong Chapter are mainly because: -There are many web applications established in past 10 years. However, how many developers know that their developed application are secure. Meanwhile, there are many transactional-based systems, we should not ignore that the web application is another channel for hackers to compromise one's confidential information and interrupt any critical business operations.
- Raise the security awareness of web application development among the professionals.
- Encourage professionals to reference standard like ISO7799 for their web application security and post-deployment review as well as audit.
- Accelerate to Share, learn, discuss and review best practices of the experienced web application development security professionals even across various user groups (Java User Group and .NET User Group ) and security associations (i.e. PISA) in Hong Kong.
From left to right: James Tsao, Anthony Lai, David Walker, Richard Stagg, Marco Leung and Gary Kung
Coding Practice
- Mainstream web technologies (i.e. .NET, J2EE and PHP on Linux) security assessment
- Web application platform (i.e. Apache, IIS, Linux, Database) security assessment and review.
- Recent Web application security concerns.
- Regularly convey latest projects and presentations from OWASP.
News from Hong Kong Chapter
NEW!!!! Software Exploitation - It is about reverse engineering and exploit
I feel very honorable to invite Nguyen NAM to provide 2-day workshop on software exploit and reverse engineering. In fact, we met in OWASP Appsec Conference 2008 at Taipei and his team has won CTF (Capture The Flag) in Hack In The Box (HITB) 2008. It is really a valuable chance to have him to be in Hong Kong and this workshop is normally charged at 1000 USD per head. Meanwhile, there is NO such kind of workshop held in Hong Kong. Please reach me at [email protected] for reservation.
Status - 4 Dec 2008 : The speaker has been notified by the agency and he will get the VISA on 6/7 Dec.
Please act fast to reserve it first and the current reservation is 24. The class size is expected to be at most 35.
Payment Method:
1) Send the payment to: Hang Seng Bank, 390-031367-888 and then send back the receipt to [email protected] and [email protected]
2) Please reach me if you have enquiry at +852 6778 2668.
Instructor
Nam Nguyen
Date and Time
2 days, 20 - 21 Dec 2008 (Sat and Sun)
Registration Time: 9:45am
Time: 10:00 - 13:00; 14:30 - 18:00
Venue
Room 172, IVE Haking Wong, Cheung Sha Wan
Organizer
OWASP (Hong Kong Chapter)
Co-organizer and Venue Sponsorship
Vocational Training Council (Haking Wong)
'Fee' (For PISA, HTCIA and OWASP members)
1000 HKD (On or Before 13 Dec)
1500 HKD (From 14 and before 18 Dec 2008)
'Fee' (For others)
2000 HKD (On or Before 13 Dec)
2500 HKD (After 13 and before 18 Dec 2008)
Seats are limited and expected lab size at most 40. The current reservation is 24 (Last updated: 3 Dec 2008)
Summary
This course is a primer into software exploitation on the Linux environment.
The course assumes only basic understanding of the Linux commands, and C
programming with the standard library. It explains the computer
architecture, assembly language then moves on to three basic classes of
security bug: buffer overflow, format string, and race condition and methods
to take advantage of them. Throughout the course, various examples are
introduced with increasing difficulty so that participants will naturally
realize the art of software exploitation for themselves.
This course does not discuss about shell coding. Except on one example where provided shell code is used as an illustration, all other challenges require only good analysis and calculation.
The course is conducted as a workshop with heavy interaction between participants and instructor. There will not be any presentation slide. Participants are to take note during the course.
Audience
Software developers, system administrators, security engineers \with some experience in Linux and C programming. It is good to prepare a candidate to join for Capture The Flag (CTF) event.
Table of Contents
1. Computer architecture
2. Assembly language
3. Buffer overflow
4. Format string
5. Race condition
6. Techniques
a. Overwrite critical variable
b. Overwrite return address
c. Return to .text
d. Return to libc
e. Overwrite .dtors
f. Overwrite .got
g. Overwrite .bss, functors
h. By pass Advanced Space Layout Randomization
7. Tools of the trade: IDA, GDB, and Python
8. Sharing of CTF in HITB
Workshop Specifics
As we have got a lab. An VM image will be provided.
Speaker Biography
Nam Nguyen is currently the principal security consultant with Blue
Moon Consulting Co., Ltd. He started poking at binaries when he
couldn't finish Dune 2 and has since spent more than a decade reverse
engineering and understanding how stuffs work.
Nam is a CISSP, a core member of the VNSecurity group, and a chapter
lead of OWASP Vietnam. His interests include code construction and
destruction, decompilation and Python.
OWASP(HK Chapter) supports 8th Infosecurityproject Conference: URL:http://www.infosecurityproject.com/
OWASAP Committee Member, Richard Stagg, uncovered Security Reality (Mar 2007)
Richard from Handshake Networking could tell you the truth of that.
URL:http://www.cw.com.hk/computerworldhk/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=409104
Hong Kong Standard: HKU changes Internet policy to boost security Hong Kong University has changed its Internet policy a week after The Standard reported that improperly indexed material listed on its Web sites could be accessed by users of the Google Internet search engine. Doug Crets 4/3/2006
Hong Kong Standard: Online enemy within
The biggest threats to computer users are not hackers but their own ignorance, complacency or carelessness, writes Doug Crets 3/27/2006
URL:http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=15121&sid=7238709&con_type=1&d_str=20060327&sear_year=2006
Web Application Security with PISA: http://www.pisa.org.hk/event/web-appl-sec.htm
OWASP (Hong Kong Chapter): Successful Web Application Security and Hacking Demo seminar co-organized with Hong Kong Java User Group (30 Jul 2005
https://hkjug.dev.java.net/gatherings/2005/0730.html
OWASP (Hong Kong Chapter): Web Application Security organized with Sun Wah Pearl Linux (29 Oct 2005)
Contact Us
Chapter Mailbox
P.O. Box No. 6684, General Post Office, Hong Kong SAR
Recent Update
--Anthony Lai 11:25, 6 July 2006 (EDT)
