Today I finally found the time to release the XAB Proof-of-Concept code. An apology to those of you who have been emailing us wondering when we would publish it.
For the time being, it’s hosted at sourceforge and you can download the code from the XAB project page located at:
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/xab] (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xab) We’ve submitted talks to Black Hat and Defcon for the updates we’re working on, so hopefully we’ll have the chance to catch everyone up, solicit some more feedback, and grab a brew.
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We’ll be hosting an informal reception at the [Hofbräuhaus] (http://www.hofbrauhauslasvegas.com/) Las Vegas on Thursday, July 30 to celebrate Tony, Matt, and Jeff’s Black Hat and DEFCON presentations. Please RSVP to rsvp[shift+2]fyrmassociates.com or talk to one of the guys wearing the FYRM Associates shirts at Black Hat. The beer will start flowing at 6 PM and we’ll be around until at least 8 PM.
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My abstract for this year’s Black Hat DC was picked up. I’ll be presenting the XSS Anonymous Browser tool, or XAB for short. I’m currently hammering out some of the more technical aspects of the tool, but I’ll have a working proof of concept ready for the conference. Plus if there’s time (who am I kidding?), I’ll release a second tool that is a great defense against the attack vectors that XAB utilizes.
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All Your Public facing Web Apps Are Relevant To Us.
I’m going to start off this post with the moral of the story: Good intentions often have bad, unintended consequences. The following is the ‘Testing Procedures’ text of requirement 6.6 from the new PCI DSS v1.2 (source: [https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss_download.html] (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss_download.html)):
For public-facing web applications, ensure that either one of the following methods are in place as follows:
Verify that public-facing web applications are reviewed (using either manual or automated vulnerability security assessment tools or methods), as follows:
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I have had many discussions this year regarding the future of the application security industry and even more about its current state. It’s interesting how people of such varying backgrounds will have similarly varying views; this short article is designed to capture those views and hopefully drive some productive discussion as a result.
Where are we now? Should be a simple question, right? Let me summarize in three main categories:
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Of the many ideas floating around the cyber security industry lately, there is one often overlooked but very effective approach: spying. Too often security personnel will look at developers as improperly educated code jocks, akin to Hollywood’s portrayal of “hackers” in the 1990s. Similarly, developers see the security analyst as an idealistic zealot with no concept of how things are in the “real world.” So the goal is to bridge the gap between the security and development groups.
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