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Shreeraj Shah (Director, BlueInfy)

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Presentation Title: Hacking Ajax and Web Services – Next Generation Web Attacks on the Rise
Presentation Details:

WEB 2.0 technologies for the Web application layer are still evolving. This framework consists of Web services, AJAX and SOAP/XML and while still evolving has thrown up new attack vectors. To combat the attacks one needs to understand the new methodology, tools and strategies. This presentation reveals emerging security threats, some of which will be demonstrated.

Logical evolution of Web applications has reached a new level with the introduction of WEB 2.0. WEB 2.0 is the combination of new technologies like Web services, AJAX and SOAP. It is important to understand this framework and the fundamentals, before looking at security threats. Ajax is becoming integral part of these new applications and its serialization aspect opens up new ways of hacking browser side application which can lead to XSS and XSRF.

Comprehending XML-based attack vectors LDAP/SQL injections, SOAP messaging attacks, AJAX and Web profiling. These shall be covered along with demonstration examples. Web services are the backbone of WEB 2.0 and it is important to understand security threats.

About Shreeraj Shah

Shreeraj Shah, B.E., MSCS, MBA, is the founder of Blueinfy, a company that provides application security services. Prior to founding Blueinfy, he was founder and board member at Net Square. He also worked with Foundstone (McAfee), Chase Manhattan Bank and IBM in security space. He has performed several security consulting assignments in the area of penetration testing, code reviews, web application assessments and security architecture reviews.

He is also the author of popular books like Hacking Web Services (Thomson 06) and Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense (Addison-Wesley 03). In addition, he has published several advisories, tools, and whitepapers, and has presented at numerous conferences including RSA, AusCERT, InfosecWorld (Misti), HackInTheBox, Blackhat, OSCON, Bellua, Syscan, ISACA etc. His articles are regularly published on Securityfocus, InformIT, DevX, O’reilly, HNS. His work has been quoted on BBC, Dark Reading, Bank Technology as an expert.



Event Organizer


Hack In The Box (M) Sdn. Bhd.

Supported & Endorsed By


Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)


Malaysian Administrative Modernisation & Management Planning Unit

Platinum Sponsors


Microsoft Corporation

Gold Sponsors


SCANIT ME LLC

Official Airline Partner


Internet Bandwidth Sponsor


Global Transit

CTF Sponsor


Scan Associates

CTF Prize Sponsor


Scan Associates

Sponsor for Zone-H/HITB Hacking Challenge


Ascendsys

HITB Cinema Sponsor


Avenuz Sdn. Bhd.

Official Creation Station


The Womb.com

Our Speakers are Supported By


F-Secure Corporation


Arbor Networks


Mediaservice.net


Bellua Asia Pacific


ERNW GmbH


Mozilla Corporation


Mu Security

Supporting Media:

Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin (VB)

InfoSec News

(ISN) InfoSec News

InfoSec News

XAKEP (Russia)

Insecure Magazine

PHRACK Magazine

Hakin9 Magazine

Supporting Organizations


Chaos Computer Club


ISECOM - Insititue for Security and Open Methodologies


ISACA


IT Underground


X-Focus China

Zone-H Defacement Mirror


Xatrix Security


Special Interest Group in Security & Information InteGrity Singapore


Syscan