Application Security

Teaching SANS SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking in St. Louis July 8-13

Just a quick update to let everyone know that I’ll be teaching SANS SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking in St. Louis July 8-13th through the Community SANS program.  This is a fantastic 6 day class with lots of hands-on exercises, sharing of my real world web app testing experiences and a Capture […]

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Burp Suite Series: Efficient use of Payload Options when Attacking HTTP Basic Authentication

In this series of blog posts I’ll be discussing some handy Burp Suite techniques we often use on our penetration tests.  Burp Suite is our de facto tool of choice for assessing web applications and conducting web based brute force attacks.  First up are some techniques to use when conducting brute force attacks on websites

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SANS Mentor brings Security 542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking (GWAPT) to Cleveland

I’m proud to be teaching SANS Security 542 here in Cleveland through the SANS Mentor Program beginning in August.  The SANS Mentor Program allows you to save thousands on your training budget and still experience live SANS training on the GWAPT classes – live training without traveling! COURSE DETAILS: Security 542: Web App Penetration Testing

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Don’t Drop the SOAP: Real World Web Service Testing for Web Hackers Presentation

Sorry for the long delay on posting the slides from the presentation that myself, Josh Abraham and Kevin Johnson did at Black Hat USA and DEF CON 19.  I’ve uploaded the slides from DEF CON to SlideShare (you can also download a copy there as well) and below are the links to the tools and

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