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, …

Call for testers OWTF 1.0 “Lionheart” is inminent, PLEASE help us: 1) Testing the bleeding edge branch here: https://github.com/owtf/owtf/tree/lions_2014 2) Reporting bugs here: https://github.com/owtf/owtf/issues  -other options: tutorials, demos, documentation, ideas, suggestions, bug fixes and any other form of contribution you can think of :)- How to get started: Intro: http://owtf.github.io/ Usage Documentation: http://docs.owtf.org/   Tutorials / Demos / …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 <– …

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 …