OWASP Boston

6:30 - 7 News review, risk analysis of POODLE attack

7 - How a Hacker Views Your Web Site

The most popular presentation of BASC 2014 -

Presented by: Patrick Laverty (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/2014_BASC_Speakers/lPatrick_Laverty)

As defenders, we have to be right 100% of the time where an attacker only needs to be right once. The attack surface of a modern web site is incredibly large and we need to be aware of all of it. Additionally, individual attacks may not always be effective but sometimes using them together can gain the desired effect. In this talk, we’ll take a look at the whole attack surface for a typical web site and the various ways that an attacker will use to compromise a site.