security-weaknesses

Lack of Visibility in Web Applications

Not being able to introspect your application at any given time or being able to know how the health status is, is not a comfortable place to be in and there is no reason you should be there.

Consuming Free and Open Source

Redirects to legacy blog post. This is where A9 (Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities) of the 2013 OWASP Top 10 comes in. We are consuming far more free and open source libraries than we have ever before. Much of the code we are pulling into our projects is never intentionally used, but is still adding surface area for attack. In this post we address the risks and countermeasures.

Talk - The Exploited & the Exploiters

Taking the perspective of the penetration tester hired in by the target to find the defects in their security defences before the cyber criminals do.

Talk - 0wn1ng The Web

At Functional Christchurch, due to popular demand. Taking the perspective of the penetration tester hired in by the target to find the defects in their security defences before the cyber criminals do.

Talk - 0wn1ng The Web

At Test Professionals Network Christchurch, due to popular demand. Taking the perspective of the penetration tester hired in by the target to find the defects in their security defences before the cyber criminals do.

Talk - 0wn1ng The Web

At CHCH.js Christchurch, due to popular demand. Taking the perspective of the penetration tester hired in by the target to find the defects in their security defences before the cyber criminals do.

Talk - 0wn1ng The Web

At WDCNZ: Kim discusses and demonstrates how JavaScript can be used for good and evil.

Talk - Passwords 101

In this 5 – 7 minute talk, Kim demonstrates (hands on) how easy it can be to compromise passwords using a collection of techniques. Kim discusses how most developers are failing at keeping their end users safe.

Workshop - Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers

At CampJS, Melbourne, Australia: Join Kim in the exploration into an insightful set of steps he has learned, from an architectural perspective down to the zeros and ones. Also providing insights of how attackers of your systems think.