Black Hat USA 2009 Weekend Training Session

July 25-26

Black Hat USA 2009 Weekday Training Session

July 27-28

Web Application (In)Security

Dafydd Stuttard and Adam Matthews

Overview:

This is a cutting-edge, hands-on course aimed at hackers who want to exploit web applications, and developers who want to know how to defend them. The course is presented by the authors of the critically-acclaimed Web Application Hacker’s Handbook, and covers the entire process of hacking a web application, from initial mapping and analysis, probing for common vulnerabilities, through to advanced exploitation techniques.

This year, the course contains more than 300 brand new lab examples, containing virtually every vulnerability that has ever been found in web applications. Even the most capable hackers will be challenged and find plenty to take away. We will also demonstrate the very latest hacking techniques developed over the past year.

Some highlights include:

• Exploiting SQL injection using second-order attacks, filter bypasses, query chaining and fully blind exploitation
• Breaking authentication and access control mechanisms
• Reverse engineering Java, Flash and Silverlight to bypass client-side controls
• Exploiting cross-site scripting to log keystrokes, port scan the victim’s computer and network, and execute custom payloads
• Exploiting LDAP, XPath and command injection; and
• Uncovering common logic flaws found in web applications.

The course concludes with a catch-the-flag contest, where participants try out their skills against a series of challenging scenarios, with prizes for winners. Attendees are expected to be familiar with core web technologies like HTTP and JavaScript.

A terrific resource for this course is the book "The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws" by Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto. The book is available for purchase from Amazon.com and provides pertinent and relevant information directly related to the course.

Course Length: Two days. All course materials, lunch and two coffee breaks will be provided. A Certificate of Completion will be offered. You must provide your own laptop.

Trainers:

NGSSoftware is offering the chance to benefit from the experience of its consultants and award-winning research team. This course teaches how to recognize the insecurities present within common database systems and how these flaws can leave you wide open to attack. It is tailored to teach security consultants,database administrators and IT professionals how hackers discover and exploit vulnerabilities to gain access to your data and further penetrate internal networks. By learning these techniques, we can discover the flaws for ourselves and effectively develop strategies to keep attackers out.

Dafydd Stuttard is a Principal Security Consultant at Next Generation Security Software, where he leads the web application security competency. He has ten years’ experience in security consulting and specializes in the penetration testing of web applications and compiled software.

Dafydd is author of The Web Application Hacker's Handbook and SQL Injection Attacks and Defense. Under the alias “PortSwigger” Dafydd created the popular Burp Suite of web application hacking tools. He has developed and presented training courses at security conferences around the world.

Dafydd has worked with numerous banks, retailers, and other enterprises to help secure their web applications, and has provided security consulting to several software manufacturers and governments to help secure their compiled software. Dafydd is an accomplished programmer in several languages, and his interests include developing tools to facilitate all kinds of software security testing.

Marcus Pinto is a Principal Security Consultant at Next Generation Security Software, where he leads the database security competency. He has eight years’ experience in security consulting and specializes in penetration testing of web applications and supporting architectures. Marcus has worked with numerous banks, retailers, and other enterprises to help secure their web applications, and has provided security consulting to the development projects of several security-critical applications. He has worked extensively with large-scale web application deployments in the financial services industry.

Marcus has developed and presented database and web application training courses at the Black Hat and other security conferences around the world.

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