Attacking and Defending Web Applications (Louisville Infosec)

This is the video of the talk "Bob’s Great Adventure: Attacking & Defending Web Applications" given at Louisville Infosec by Paul Asadoorian.

Abstract: We will explore the age old debate between Alice and Bob, learn about the latest web application attacks and tools, and learn about the latest defense.

Speaker Bio: Paul is the product evangelist for Tenable Network Security, where we writes and produces content to support the Nessus vulnerability scanner in addition to several enterprise products.  Paul is also the host of PaulDotCom Security Weekly (http://pauldotcom.com), a weekly podcast discussing IT security news, vulnerabilities, hacking, and research, including interviews with some of the top security professionals. He is also the co-author of Ultimate WRT54G Hacking, a book dedicated to embedded device hacking and wireless security. Paul's other efforts include a monthly webcast discussing the latest hacking techniques and news, penetration testing, and coaching capture the flag hacking events.

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Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net