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OWASP NEWS April 2009

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OWASP paid members reach 578 http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_AppSec_Conference
Global Committees progress https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Global_Committee_Pages
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OWASP AppSec News

4/0 Data Loss dB - http://preview.tinyurl.com/qxrbqm

(5) Hacked websites that hit the news this month.

4/2 http://www.securitybalance.com/2009/04/mq-one-of-the-blind-spots/

Augusto Paes de Barros from the Security Balance blog posts about message queue security

4/3 http://i8jesus.com/?p=37

Arshan Dabirsiaghi posts on his blog about Browser scheme/slash quirks

4/7 http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2009/04/ssl-whos-to-blame.html

Michael Coates talks about SSL and who is to blame: webites, browsers, or users?

4/8 http://blog.portswigger.net/2009/04/using-burp-extender.html

PortSwigger adds some interesting information about using the Burp Extender

4/9 http://michael-coates.blogspot.com/2009/04/universities-web-app-security.html

Michael Coates asks the question, "[which] universities out there are offering classes which address web application security?"

4/9 http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2009/04/09/improving-security-with-url-rewriting.aspx

Bryan Sullivan talks about improving web application security with URL Rewriting

4/12 http://aboulton.blogspot.com/2009/04/security-assessing-java-rmi-slides.html

Adam Boulton's OWASP presentation on Security Assessing Java RMI has been made available on his blog

4/12 http://shiflett.org/blog/2009/apr/a-rev-canonical-http-header

Chris Shiflett sugggets #revcanonical HTTP Header

4/16 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1338343

http://www.cigital.com/justiceleague/2009/04/16/software-security-2008/ Gary McGraw uses statistics to show that Software Security has come of age

4/17 http://research.zscaler.com/2009/04/we-used-to-laugh-at-xss.html

Michael Sutton discusses history of XSS from Defcon 10 (2002) to the present day (Twitter worm)

4/17 http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2009/04/software-security-grew-to-nearly-500m.html

Jeremiah uses McDonalds and Mortons as comparatives for black-box vs. white-box security testing

4/17 http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2009/04/website-threats-and-their-capabilities.html

OWASP Catalyst announced

4/20 http://paco.to/?p=305

Paco lists 5 reasons for software certifications

4/20 http://www.greensheet.com/newswire.php?newswire_id=11693

Qualys, Inc., the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced QualysGuard(R) PCI Connect which is the industry's first Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) ecosystem for PCI compliance connecting merchants to multiple partners and security solutions in order to document and meet all 12 requirements for PCI DSS

4/20 http://labs.securitycompass.com/index.php/2009/04/20/security-analysis-of-core-j2ee-design-patterns/

Rohit Sethi of SecurityCompass posts a blog post on a new Security Compass Labs blog about "Security Analysis of Core Java Enterprise Patterns"

4/21 http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd7x5smw_16hdd34ggz

mario heiderich posts some results of browser fuzzing on extraneous characters in tags

4/22 http://plynt.com/blog/2009/04/how-frequently-should-an-appli/

The Plynt blog asks the question, "How frequently shoud Applications be Tested?"

4/24 http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Man_vs._Code

Mike Boberski of the OWASP ASVS Project posts a wiki article about using Notepad++ to syntax highlight PHP code

4/25 http://shreeraj.blogspot.com/2009/04/web2proxy-beta-web-20-application-proxy.html

Shreeraj Shah releases a new tool, Web2Proxy, which is a Web 2.0 Application Proxy, Profiling, and Fuzzing Tool

4/26 http://enablesecurity.com/2009/04/26/the-state-of-web-application-security-and-their-firewalls/

Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique from Trustwave and Sandro Gauchi of EnableSecurity spoke at TROOPERS09 in Munch about "The Truth of Web Application Firewalls: what the vendors do NOT want you to know"

4/27 http://tacticalwebappsec.blogspot.com/2009/04/scanner-and-waf-data-sharing.html

Ryan Barnett gives guidance on how best to make VA+WAF work together

4/27 http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_PCI_Project

Ed Bellis and Trey Ford start a PCI effort to ensure their activities uniformly meet PCI requirements, and for those getting started - to aid in building a website security strategy that also ensures sustainable PCI compliance.