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== Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 7:30PM ==
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== Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 7:30PM ==
* <b>Mike Schrenk, author of "Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers"</b>
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'''BOOK PREVIEW: Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers SECOND EDITION'''
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'Topic: The intersection of social and technical attacks in Web 2.0 applications
  
Michael Schrenk will provide a preview of the largely expanded second edition of his book "Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers". This second edition describes how technologies like JavaScript, AJAX and Flash challenge webbot developers and how those challenges are met. He will also talk about defeating CAPTCHAs, scalability and other related topics.
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Speakers: Mike Bailey and Mike Murray
  
Michael Schrenk is a software developer, author and instructor, who specializes in automated web browsing agents known as webbots. Michael uses the Internet in new and innovative (odd?) ways to provide competitive advantages for his clients in The US, Europe and Asia.
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Mike Bailey is a senior security researcher at MAD Security and an
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application security specialist. While his research spans a wide
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variety of domains, it generally focuses on secure web application
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development, web application scanning and penetration testing, online
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privacy issues, network protocols and services, and how to break them.
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Mike has spoken throughout the country at different security
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conferences and shows, including Blackhat DC, Toorcon, Defcon and
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others. Aside from coming up with new and interesting ways to break
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web and client-side applications, he also puts those attacks into
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practice as a penetration tester. Currently, Mike is studying the
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intersection of social and technical attacks in Web 2.0 applications.
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He publishes his research on the MAD Security blog as well as at
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Skeptikal.org.
  
He also helps journalists more effectively use computers to conduct online research through automation and by describing where and how to find otherwise hidden online information. No stranger to Europe--he's lived and worked for clients in Moscow and Madrid, Mike taught at the 2008 European Investigative Journalism Conference (Brussels Belgium), twice in 2009 he lectured at The Center for Investigative Journalism (London England) and later in 2009, he lead several sessions at the VVOJ Journalism conference (Utrecht The Netherlands).  
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Mike Murray has spent his entire career in information security and
 
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currently leads the delivery arm of MAD Security (MADSecInc.com).
Last August, Mike made his fourth speaking appearance at the DEFCON computer hacking conference. Mike lives in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada (USA). You can contact him at http://www.schrenk.com or follow him on Twitter [http://twitter.com/mgschrenk @mgschrenk].
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Mike is a co-founder of InfoSecLeaders.com where he writes and talks
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about the skills and strategies for building a long-term career in
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information security. Mike's on security careers have been seen at
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major conferences like RSA and Defcon.
  
 
= Would you like to speak at an OWASP Los Angeles Meeting? =
 
= Would you like to speak at an OWASP Los Angeles Meeting? =

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April meeting will be at Symantec in Culver City at 7:30PM April 21.

The intersection of social and technical attacks in Web 2.0 applications by Mike Bailey and Mike Murray.

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 7:30PM

  • The intersection of social and technical attacks in Web 2.0 applications by Mike Bailey and Mike Murray
  Meeting Location
  Symantec Corporation
  900 Corporate Pointe
  Culver City, CA 90230


  Please RSVP via Eventbrite.


'Topic: The intersection of social and technical attacks in Web 2.0 applications

Speakers: Mike Bailey and Mike Murray

Mike Bailey is a senior security researcher at MAD Security and an application security specialist. While his research spans a wide variety of domains, it generally focuses on secure web application development, web application scanning and penetration testing, online privacy issues, network protocols and services, and how to break them.

Mike has spoken throughout the country at different security

conferences and shows, including Blackhat DC, Toorcon, Defcon and others. Aside from coming up with new and interesting ways to break web and client-side applications, he also puts those attacks into practice as a penetration tester. Currently, Mike is studying the intersection of social and technical attacks in Web 2.0 applications. He publishes his research on the MAD Security blog as well as at Skeptikal.org.

Mike Murray has spent his entire career in information security and currently leads the delivery arm of MAD Security (MADSecInc.com). Mike is a co-founder of InfoSecLeaders.com where he writes and talks about the skills and strategies for building a long-term career in information security. Mike's on security careers have been seen at major conferences like RSA and Defcon.

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