Last night I attended my first Phoenix-OWASP meeting hosted at UAT. There were around 30 people in attendance from all backgrounds, including independent researchers, government agencies, private sector, and academia. Andre Gironda had a cool presentation (available in PDF) Reflections on Trusting the Same-Origin Policy. Adam Muntner, also in attendance is now a Trusted Catalyst/contributor […]

The folks at nCircle Blog have posted a VERT Challenge, and hopefully more to come. You can check out the details at their blog, but I’ll be posting my progress here and we’ll see how far I can get before I either a.) give up, or b.) someone else gets it, or c.) hopefully win!
Anyways […]

From the Owasp-phoenix mailing list:
This month we have an exciting technical talk discussing the Same-Origin Policy and attacks that attempt to break/circumvent these controls by security researcher Andre Gironda. The details of this month’s meeting are below:
Where:
UAT - University of Advancing Technology (Entrance at the back of the building)
2625 West Baseline Road
Tempe, Arizona 85283-1056
When
6:30PM, […]

If you haven’t heard, a keygen was released that brute-forced the correct CD key for Windows Vista. Martin McKeay did the math and let’s just say, it’ll take a really long time for anybody to brute force a key with available processing power we have today. Fortunately, you don’t have to wait that long. PARADOX […]

The list of speakers and schedule for ShmooCon has been posted. A lot of interesting topics to check out, it’s so hard to choose. My friend Ryan Clarke is speaking on “Extend your Code into the Real World,” a look at electronics and hardware hacking. Ryan now teaches at my university and also runs the […]