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Revision as of 13:32, 31 March 2009
OWASP Boston
Welcome to the Boston chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Jim Weiler
Participation
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
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Local News
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To find out more about the Boston chapter, just join the OWASP Boston mailing list.
Local Chapter Information
The chapter shipping/mailing address is:
OWASP Boston 35 Wachusett Dr Lexington, MA. 02421
Reviews
Chapter Meetings
We meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH (Unless a speaker can only present another night), 6:30 to 9 pm.
Everyone is welcome to come to any meeting, there is no signup or joining criteria, just come if it sounds interesting. Feel free to sign up to the OWASP Boston mailing list. This list is very low volume (2 - 3 emails/month); it is used to remind people about each monthly meeting, inform about local application security events and special chapter offers.
Information and an RSS feed for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can be found at Boston User Groups.
Location
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month ( Unless a speaker can only present another night), 6:30 pm at the Microsoft offices at the Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA.
From Rt. 128 North take exit 26 toward Waltham, East up the hill on Rt. 20. From Rt 128 South take exit 26 but go around the rotary to get to 20 East to Waltham. Follow signs for Rt. 117 (left at the second light). When you get to 117 turn left (West). You will cross back over Rt. 128. Jones Rd. (look for the Waltham Weston Corporate Center sign) is the second left, at a blinking yellow light, on Rt. 117 going west about 0.1 miles from Rt. 128 (I95). The office building is at the bottom of Jones Rd. Best parking is to turn right just before the building and park in the back. Knock on the door to get the security guard to open it. The room is MPR C.
Next Meeting ---- Wednesday April 1
Main Presentation
Breaking Browsers
- Browser attack vectors
- How can browsers be properly secured
- The future of the web - browser vulnerabilities and attacks
- traditional web based attacks
- attacking the browser itself.
- attacking the plugins
- attacking a standard
As part of the presentation Josh will demo -
Clickjacking
BeEF (Browser Exploitation Framework) setup/ plugin
detection and JS autorun
BeEF exploiting MS09-002
adobe util_printf xml_corruption
Java Applet with Meterpreter payload
Firefox keylogger
Joshua D. Abraham joined Rapid7 in 2006 as a Security Consultant. Josh has extensive IT Security and Auditing experience and worked as an enterprise risk assessment analyst for Hasbro Corporation. Josh specializes in penetration testing, web application security assessments, wireless security assessments, and custom code development. In the past, he has spoken at Infosec World, ShmooCon, LinuxWorld, Comdex and the Boston Linux User Group. In his spare time, he contributes code to open source security projects such as the BackTrack LiveCD, Nikto, Fierce, and PBNJ.
Past Meeting Notes
Feb 2005
Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.
March 2005
Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security
April 2005
Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers
Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security
May 2005
Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom
June 2005
Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools
July 2005
Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security
September 2005
Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security
October 2005
Prateek Mishra, Ph.D. Director, Security Standards and Strategy: Oracle Corp Chaiman of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee - Identity Federation : Prospects and Challenges
Ryan Shorter, Sr. System Engineer: Netcontinuum - Application Security Gateways
November 2005
Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications
December 2005
Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled
January 2006
David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption
February 2006
Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source
March 2006
Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks
Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities
April 2006
Dennis Hurst; SPI Dynamics: A study of AJAX Hacking
Jim Weiler; OWASP Boston: Using Paros HTTP proxy, part 1. first meeting with all demos, no powerpoints!
May 2006
June 2006
Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention
Jim Weiler - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool
September 2006
Mike Gavin, Forrester Research: Web Application Firewalls
November 2006
January 2007
Dave Low, RSA the Security Division of EMC: encryption case studies
March 2007
Jeremiah Grossman, CTO Whitehat Security: Top 10 Web Application Hacks of 2006
June 2007
Tool Talk - Jim Weiler - WebGoat and Crosssite Request Forgeries
Danny Allan; Director, Security Research, Watchfire
Topic: Exploitation of the OWASP Top 10: Attacks and Strategies
September 2007
Day of Worldwide OWASP 1 day conferences on the topic "Privacy in the 21st Century"
October 2007
George Johnson, Principal Software Engineer EMC; CISSP
An Introduction to Threat Modeling.
Jim Weiler CISSP
Web Application Security and PCI compliance.
November 2007
Tom Mulvehill Ounce Labs
Description – Tom will share his knowledge and expertise on implementing security into the software development life cycle. This presentation will cover how to bring practicality into secure software development. Several integration models will be explored as well as solutions for potential obstacles
December 2007
Scott Matsumoto; Principal Consultant, Cigital
Description – You Say Tomayto and I Say Tomahto – Talking to Developers about Application Security
March 2008
Chris Eng; Senior Director, Security Research, Veracode
Description – Attacking crypto in web applications
June 2008
Main Speaker - Jeremiah Grossman; Founder and CTO, Whitehat Security
Appetizer - Hacking Intranets from the Outside (Just when you thought your network was safe) Port scanning with JavaScript
Main Topic - Business Logic Flaws: How they put your Websites at Risk
December 2008
Main Speaker - Brian Holyfield, Gothem Digital Science
Tamper Proofing Web Applications http://www.gdssecurity.com/l/b/2008/12/04/
Boston OWASP Chapter Leaders
President
Jim Weiler 781 356 0067
Program Committee
Mark Arnold
Jim Weiler 781 356 0067
