29.07.09

Dave Rook, Security Analyst of Realex Payments is presenting at Def Con, Las Vegas on July 30th.

Dave Rook, Security Analyst of Realex Payments is presenting at Def Con, Las Vegas on July 30th. Def Con is the largest and longest running hacking conference in the world, for corporate IT professionals.

Dave will present on the impact of common vulnerabilities found in web applications and how they differ in the Web 2.0 world. Dave will detail these new vulnerabilities which include XSS worms and widget hacking, and will discuss how the rapid proliferation of new technologies is also accompanied by new attack vectors that hackers are eager to exploit.

David Rook is a contributor to several OWASP projects including the code review guide and regularly presents at IT security conferences on the topic of secure application development.