June 2005

June Meeting - 6/29 @ 7PM

Atlanta OWASP June Meeting

Advanced SQL Injection Exploiting SQL injection on MySQL, generic UNION exploit and using SQL Injection to gain complete access to a server.

Wednesday June 29th 7:00pm - 8:00pm

SPI Dynamics Headquarters 115 Perimeter Center Place, N.E. Suite 1100 Atlanta, GA 30346

OWASP Atlanta - our mission as a local chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project is to help promote awareness and contributions to web application security.

Who Should Attend - anyone interested in Web Application Security (management, security architects, developers, etc) This meeting is open to public and admission/parking is free. Directions: http://www.spidynamics.com/aboutspi/contact/directions.html

You must RSVP to attend this event.

Register to OWASP Atlanta mailing list at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owasp-atlanta/

Keynote Speaker: Shiroy Choksey Intern, SPI Labs S.P.I. Dynamics Incorporated

Shiroy Choksey is an intern for SPI Dynamics, the expert in Web application security assessment and testing. His internship with the company is currently with SPI Labs, the renowned application security research and development group within SPI Dynamics. Here he assists a team of accomplished security experts in their research who have received worldwide recognition for the identification of security vulnerabilities and exploits. Prior to joining the SPI Labs team as an intern, Shiroy completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology with highest honors, from Pune University, India. He is pursuing a Masters in Information Security from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Information Security Center (GTISC). At GTISC, he extensively researches SQL Injection techniques and built his own SQL Injection tool with support for generic database exploitation and IDS evasion. Shiroy is a recipient of several prestigious awards including the American Alumni Student Award, a distinguished award presented to ten Indian students, the J. N. Tata Scholar Award for exemplary academic achievement awarded to selected Indian students, and the Nirenski Study Award that is awarded for consistent outstanding academic performance in school. In addition, Shiroy is a talented musician, playing the piano and the guitar, and has received numerous awards for best speaker at debate competitions throughout his academic career.