GSoC Archives - 7ASecurity Blog https://7asecurity.com/blog/ Helping you secure apps and websites Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:15:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://7asecurity.com/blog/contents/uploads/2019/06/favicon.ico GSoC Archives - 7ASecurity Blog https://7asecurity.com/blog/ 32 32 How to Write a Winning Proposal, Lessons from Mohit Sharma For Business & GSoC [2/2] https://7asecurity.com/blog/2019/07/how-to-write-a-winning-proposal-business-and-gsoc-2-2/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:30:30 +0000 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 …

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]]> How to Write a Winning Proposal, Lessons from Mohit Sharma For Business & GSoC [1/2] https://7asecurity.com/blog/2019/07/how-to-write-a-winning-proposal-business-and-gsoc-1-2/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:05:19 +0000 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, …

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]]> OWTF 1.0 “Lionheart”: Call for testers + GSoC Poll https://7asecurity.com/blog/2014/09/owtf-10-lionheart-call-for-testers-gsoc/ Sat, 13 Sep 2014 01:58:00 +0000 Call for testers OWTF 1.0 “Lionheart” is inminent, PLEASE help us: 1) Testing the bleeding edge branch here: github 2) Reporting bugs here: github  -other options: tutorials, demos, documentation, ideas, suggestions, bug fixes and any other form of contribution you can think of :)- How to get started: Intro: owtf.github Usage Documentation: docs.owtf   Tutorials / Demos / …

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]]> OWASP GSoC: call for mentors/co-mentors plz RT! https://7asecurity.com/blog/2014/03/owasp-gsoc-call-for-mentorsco-mentors/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:01:00 +0000 OWASP received 88 proposals this year, but needs 50+ more mentors or some amazing students will be lost this year in the GSoC 2014, please don’t let this happen, here is what you can do: Case 1) Mentoring for OWASP projects that are not OWTF If you are interested in mentoring/co-mentoring OWASP projects that are …

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]]> Get paid, help OWASP, GSoC 2014 ideas UPDATED, plz RT https://7asecurity.com/blog/2014/02/get-paid-help-owasp-gsoc-2014-ideas/ Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:00:00 +0000 Yes folks, it is that awesome time of the year when Google rocks the open source world with their awesome Google Summer of Code again! This is a quick blog post to let you know that the OWASP OWTF GSoC 2014 ideas have just been updated, there are a few more ideas and most of …

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]]> OWTF 0.45.0 “Winter Blizzard” released! plz RT! https://7asecurity.com/blog/2014/01/owtf-0450-winter-blizzard-released-plz/ Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:20:00 +0000 OWASP OWTF is always looking for contributors, feedback and new ideas. If you find a bug or have an idea about what OWTF could do, please tell us in our github issue tracker. Thank you! This is another a very significant release which includes the continued outstanding work of: The 4 x OWASP OWTF GSoC …

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]]> OWTF 0.30 “Summer Storm II” released! plz RT! https://7asecurity.com/blog/2013/08/owtf-030-summer-storm-ii-released-plz-rt/ Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:53:00 +0000 IMPORTANT NOTE: Some of the new features require the use of the “–dev” flag, please report any issues you find in our github page. Thanks! This is another a very significant release which includes the continued outstanding work of the following Google Summer of Code Projects: OWASP OWTF – INBOUND PROXY WITH MiTM & CACHING …

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]]> OWASP OWTF report prototype voting, please contribute! plz RT! https://7asecurity.com/blog/2013/07/owasp-owtf-report-prototype-voting/ Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0000 A common complaint for OWTF was that the report was “ugly”, now it’s your turn to change that: This project has a community voting phase, so we need your help to choose the upcoming OWASP OWTF report default style, layout and skin: OWASP OWTF – Reporting by Assem Chelli (Dedicated Mentor: Gareth Heyes, Co-Mentors: Johanna …

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]]> OWTF 0.20 “Summer Storm I” released! plz RT! https://7asecurity.com/blog/2013/07/owtf-020-summer-storm-i-released-plz-rt/ Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:05:00 +0000 This is a very significant release which includes the initial outstanding work of the following Google Summer of Code Projects: OWASP OWTF – INBOUND PROXY WITH MiTM & CACHING CAPABILITIES by Bharadwaj Machiraju (Dedicated Mentor: Krzysztof Kotowicz, Co-Mentors: Javier Marcos de Prado, Martin Johns, Abraham Aranguren) Pre-implementation research document<– FEEDBACK Welcome! MiTM proxy benchmarks <– …

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]]> OWASP OWTF GSoC Selection, Stats and Poll https://7asecurity.com/blog/2013/06/owasp-owtf-gsoc-selection-stats-and-poll/ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:48:00 +0000 As you may know, OWASP OWTF took part in the GSoC 2013. It was somewhat surprising (also to me) that OWTF got 4 slots, the same as ZAP (an OWASP flagship project I have a lot of respect for) and OWASP as an organisation in 2012. Instead of writing a blog post about my personal …

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