NOTE: This was all coordinated work with human rights activists, vulnerabilities were reported, findings public, and talk (below) given! 🙂 Is monitoring your children something your country's government asks you to do? Do you feel you need the government's help to parent your child, technologically? What if I told you there is a country that forced its …
With so many automated tools around it is no wonder that many organizations choose to automate some aspects of security testing. There is value in doing this, especially when we refer to fuzzing supervised by humans or in automated dynamic or static analysis to catch suspicious or low hanging fruit vulnerabilities early in the development …
This post is a continuation of How to Write a Winning Proposal, Lessons from Mohit Sharma For Business & GSoC [1/2], so if you missed that, start there. 🙂 This is by far one of the finest proposals OWASP OWTF received for GSoC. I hope you find these tips useful and most importantly help you …
As a mentor of OWASP OWTF (one of the OWASP Flagship projects), I am often asked for advice to put together a great GSoC proposal. How to write a winning proposal, one that will have maximum chances of acceptance. In this blog post I will share a number of tips including examples from Mohit Sharma, …
Yes folks, it is that time again, a new release of the Offensive Web Testing Framework, OWASP OWTF, one of several OWASP Flagship projects: We find OWTF most useful in large assessment where you have little time to evaluate a large number of targets. The ability to launch plugins selectively and dynamically as well as removing work …
It has been a long wait, but finally, OWTF 2.0a "Tikka Masala" is here! Although partly a tribute to delicious Indian food, this release is especially dedicated to all those hard working Indian contributors who have continously demonstrated their passion, professionalism, brainpower and incredible performance, without which OWTF would not be the awesome tool it …
REMINDER: We just released OWTF 1.0 "Lionheart", Please try it and give us feedback! NOTE: This blog post is a guestpost by Marios Kourtesis, who authored one of the sexiest GSoC 2014 projects this year: WAF Bypasser. An epic joint venture between two OWASP projects: OWASP ByWaf and OWASP OWTF. NOTE: WAF Bypasser is a tool that can be used …
REMINDER: We just released OWTF 1.0 "Lionheart", Please try it and give us feedback! NOTE: This blog post is a guestpost by Deep 'dscarson' Shah, who authored one of the most amazing GSoC 2014 projects this year: Zest support and ZAP integration. And with that, a big welcome and THANK YOU to Deep! OWASP OWTF - Zest support and ZAP …
REMINDER: We just released OWTF 1.0 "Lionheart", Please try it and give us feedback! NOTE: This blog post is a guestpost by Bharadwaj 'tunnelshade' Machiraju, who devised and implemented the UI and Database idea from conception to implementation, full props to you, my friend 🙂 And with that, a big welcome and THANK YOU to Bharadwaj! OWASP OWTF - …
REMINDER: We just released OWTF 1.0 "Lionheart", Please try it and give us feedback! Just a quick note to say that the materials used by the OWTF Crew during the Brucon 5x5 presentations are now online: Slides here: brucon-2014-5by5-owasp-owtf OWTF 1.0 "Lionheart" - Brucon 5x5 Video: Talk structure and higher resolution demos (From minute: 0) Introduction to OWTF and discussion of the Web …
