Archive for August, 2008

Speaking at POC 2008

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I will present a session at this year's Power of Community hacking conference in Seoul about vulnerabilities in closed source PHP applications. Session: Vulnerability Discovery in Closed Source/Encrypted PHP Applications Security audits of PHP applications are usually performed on a source code basis. However sometimes vendors protect their source code by encrypting ...

Speaking at IPC 2008

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I will present two session at this year's International PHP Conference that has now moved from Frankfurt to Mainz. Session: Suhosin catching vulnerabilities before they hit you During the last two years the Suhosin PHP protection system has become a standard component of many PHP installations of various linux and bsd distributions. This ...

Speaking at ZendCon 2008

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I will speak at this year's Zend PHP Conference and Expo about security problems usually missing in talks about PHP security. Session: Lesser Known Security Problems in PHP Applications When the security of PHP applications is in focus usually standard XSS vulnerabilities, SQL Injections, Remote File Inclusions, Header Injections and CSRF are ...

Free Security Audits

Friday, August 1st, 2008

When I received the following mail today I was very amused, because the TikiWiki developers seem to have a very obscure idea how to enhance the security of their product. In the past you have found some vulnerabilities in Tikiwiki that we have fixed based on your advice. The Tikiwiki community is ...