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OWASP NEWS October 2010

OWASP Podcast Roundtable

Next Recording : January 21, 2010

article ideas for discussion

1) [Full-disclosure] Microsoft Windows NT #GP Trap Handler Allows Users
to Switch Kernel Stack
<A HREF="http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-01/0346.html">http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-01/0346.html</A>

--> holey OS code, Batman! how do you even start to get a handle on this
bugger? this isn't web app specific, but it squarely hits secure coding
between the eyes. how does a bug like this survive for 17 years?


2) Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2009 (Official)
<A HREF="http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2010/01/top-ten-web-hacking-techniques-of-2009.html">http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2010/01/top-ten-web-hacking-techniques-of-2009.html</A>

--> do you agree? anything jump out? any good back-stories?

3) Google: A new approach to China
<A HREF="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html</A>

--> is this important news? how does this affect the development
community, particularly by extension? has anything really changed?

4) Google, China, "Aurora", and Advanced Persistent Threat
(this makes me want to start chanting "lions and tigers and bears - OH
MY!":)

Operation “Aurora” Hit Google, Others
<A HREF="http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/operation-“aurora”-hit-google-others/">http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/operation-%E2%80%9Caurora%E2%80%9D-hit-google-others/</A>

Hack of Google, Adobe Conducted Through Zero-Day IE Flaw
<A HREF="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/hack-of-adob/">http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/hack-of-adob/</A>

Microsoft Security Advisory (979352)
Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution
<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979352.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979352.mspx</A>

Google v China
<A HREF="http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-v-china.html">http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-v-china.html</A>

Web-based systems vs. Advanced Persistent Threat
<A HREF="http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2010/01/web-based-systems-vs-advanced.html">http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2010/01/web-based-systems-vs-advanced.html</A>

--> A new IE 0-day brings mega-tech-corps to their knees. France and
Germany respond by recommending against the use of IE altogether. Is
this news? with so many IE6 apps still in use today, does it even matter?

--> this is also the source of a couple potential buzzword winners for
2010... "Operation Aurora" and "advanced persistent threat"...

5) Microsoft Advances Search Privacy with Bing
<A HREF="http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/01/18/microsoft-advances-search-privacy-with-bing.aspx">http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/01/18/microsoft-advances-search-privacy-with-bing.aspx</A>

--> is this really that big a deal? do they really need the IP address
at all? is this doing enough, or does it fall far short?

6) Microsoft Seeks New Legal Framework For Cloud
<A HREF="http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222301657&cid=IWK_Government-Twitter">http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222301657&cid=IWK_Government-Twitter</A>

--> what sort of legislation/regulation do we need? what would be
useful? we all know, I think, that's it going to happen one way or
another. the question is what is and isn't useful.