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OWASP Sydney

Welcome to the Sydney chapter homepage. The chapter leaders are Paul Theriault, Jean-Paul, Chris Gatford


Participation

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Next Meeting

TBA - Likely around September 1 - currently organising speakers.

Previous Meetings

Date: Wednesday, 28th July 2010

Presentations:

  • Robert Lee, PriceWaterHouse Coopers, Vulnerabilities & Google’s Jarlsberg Application
  • Alex Kouzemchenko, Azimuth Security, WAFs: How I love Thee.

Date: Tuesday, 20rd April 2010

Presentations:

Lightning Talks!

  • Louis Nyffenegger - ‘SQL injection in “order by” clauses’
  • Raphael Speyer – ECMAscript 5
  • Christian Heinrich - OWASP Top Ten 2010
  • Daniel Grzelak – Recon Tool Demonstration

Date: Tuesday, 23rd March 2010

Presentations:

  • PDF Hacking - Paul Theriault (Link TBA)
    The plan is to run an informal workshop style presentation with the following objectives:
    1. Provide an introduction to PDF format, scripting capabilities and other “features” you wouldn’t expect to see in a document format
    2. Learn some basic tools & techniques for analyzing malicious PDF files, for great justice
    3. Learn some basic tools & techniques for creating malicious PDF files, for great science
    4. Look at the security implications of PDFs and what can be done in an enterprise environment to reduce these risks (uninstall Reader?)
  • Incident Case Study - Charles Carmakal (Link TBA)
    Review of the security breach landscape in the US and go through an interesting case study. It involved organised criminals from eastern Europe, over $100M of losses, and incredible sophistication. The initial point of entry for this breach was the web - SQL injection, linked databases, privilege escalation, development/deployment of custom malware.