IT Security Awareness Day 2007 at Singapore Poly

I gave a talk on WebSecurity at Singapore Poly at the IT Security Awareness Day Event. Around 300 students attended the event, and most of them were school kids. I mostly spoke about Johnny's Google Hacking Database, and little bit about XSS. Justin Lister from InterSect Singapore also spoke at the event. He organized a simple game to explain Phishing. Thanks to Samson, and Cecil for organizing the event.

Security Related Groups in Singapore

1) LinkedIn Group for OWASP
2) OWASP-Singapore mailing list
3) Security Meetup - Singapore == Next meeting on 13th Dec 2007.

OWASP Meeting at GeekTerminal Singapore

Two days back, I attended the second OWASP-Singapore (Open Web Application Security Project) meeting at Geek Terminal. Six people turned out and we had three different presentations. Michael Boman spoke about "Overcoming USB (In) Security". He also demonstrated Lock Picking. Wong from Resolve spoke about ILDP Strategies. Later we discussed about MMORPG hacking. We discussed about SecondLife hacking, gaming client hacking, gaming logic exploitation, etc . We also discussed about developing a framework to test and prevent Game Hacking. Later we discussed about websecurity. The whole meeting went for around 3 hours. I wish more people join.

Open Web Application Security Project - Singapore Chapter

OWASP-Singapore meetup was held on 9th Oct at Geek Terminal in Singapore. Five of us meet and had a chat for about an hour. Geek Terminal is a nice place for geek meetups. I guess they provide laptops with wifi connection to use and they also have mini rooms with projects for conducting mini talks. I'm not sure if those laptops run Linux, would be great if it does so. Last Saturday Facebook and Slashdot community hosted a meeting there, but I could not make it . I hope we have more of these Security related meeting and Open Hack Days in and around Singapore.

My talk at Singapore Linux Meetup

This wednesday I gave a talk on websecurity titled "Hacking the Web" at Singapore Linux meetup. This is my first talk in Singapore and as usual I was kinda nerves. Around 35 to 40 people attended the talk and there were lot of questions from the audience. We had some technical problems initially, with internet connection. I was not able to connect to the internet from my macbook because of dhcp version mismatch. So I'd to run through the talk without internet connection and then later borrow a Windows laptop to demonstrate things on internet. The slides are hosted at http://www.codeshepherd.com/hackingtheweb/hackingtheweb.html . Thanks to Darrel for organizing the talk and everyone else who came down. I will be giving the same talk at Singapore Poly, National University of Singapore, and Open Source Developers Conference 2007 at Brisbane, in the near future. Overall this talk turned out to be a very good experience.

Happy News!!

I just received a email from Open Source Developers Conference, Australia, Committee, confirming that my talk has been accepted for the Conference. I will be speaking on "Web Security" at OSDC 2007, Brisbane, Australia this November. Let me know if anyone else is attending the conference.