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OWASP Newsletter #14 (29-Feb-2008)
Welcome to
the 14th edition of the OWASP Newsletter, featuring OWASP Employee #2 - Paulo
Coimbra, the Proposed OWASP Project Assessment and the OWASP Summer of Code 2008
Project.
As always, if you have any content to add to the next edition, please feel free
to add it directly to its WIKI page
OWASP Newsletter 15.
Alison McNamee - OWASP Operations Director -
Alison.mcnamee@owasp.org
Featured
Item: OWASP Employee #2, Paulo Coimbra
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Paulo
Coimbra (following his recent sucess of managing Spoc 07) as accepted to
become the 2nd OWASP employee (he will be working part-time until June and
full time from then on). Paulo will take on the role of OWASP Project
Management, and here are his first short-term action plan: |
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To
launch and manage the new season of code – OWASP Summer of Code 2008.
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To
contribute to and stabilize OWASP's new Project Assessment Criteria.
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To
contribute to the assessment, and re-assessment, of all OWASP projects.
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To
build and maintain a wiki page with the status of all OWASP projects and
their assessments.
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To
welcome new developers who are interested in joining OWASP community.
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To help
project leaders and participants with their projects in any way that I can.
Featured
Item: Proposed OWASP Project Assessment
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OWASP
has begun the process of stabilization its
PROJECT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA. The objective is to have clear and
objective requirements for OWASP project's (for both tools and
documentation).
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The
current structure is still in flux, so please spend some time reviewing
it and send us your comments. |
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The
objective is to map all
OWASP Projects to the proposed 3 project modes (Release Quality,
Beta Quality and Alpha Quality) in the next couple months. |
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Featured
Project: OWASP Spring of Code 2008 is about to be launched - March 3rd
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OWASP
is about to launch the
'OWASP SUMMER OF CODE 2008' (SoC 2008). This follows the
successfull OWASP Spring of Code 2007 (SpoC 07), in which 21 projects were
sponsored with a budget of US$117,500, and the OWASP Autumn of Code 2006
(AoC 06), in which 9 projects were sponsored with a budget of US$20,000.
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The SoC
2008 is an open sponsorship program were participants/developers are paid to
work on OWASP (and web security) related projects. |
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The SoC
2008 is also an opportunity for external individual or company sponsors to
challenge the participants/developers to work in areas in which they are
willing to invest additional funding. |
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For
more details see:
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Latest
additions to the WIKI
New Pages
New Chapter
Pages
Updated
Pages
Updated
chapter pages:
New
Documents & Presentations from chapters
For a
complete list of chapter presentations see
the online table of presentations.
OWASP
references in the Media
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Feb 28
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OWASP Hartford tomorrow (by
Marcin) - Tomorrow, February 28th, is the first ever meeting for the
brand new Hartford Owasp chapter. James McGovern, the chapter lead has been
putting some effort into starting it off with a bang, so I hope everyone in
the NY/CT/Mass area can make it. Agenda ... |
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Feb 27
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Polymorphic Javascript (by
Gareth Heyes) - Finding a pattern in malicious javascript is difficult,
it's possible to selectively change the source code yet still execute the
same payload. There are many ways to morph Javascript and I shall go through
a few of the possibilities and provide... |
Alison McNamee
OWASP Operations
Director
9175 Guilford Road
Suite 300
Columbia, MD 21046
301-575-0197
(phone)
301-604-8033 (fax)
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