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When: Wed March 24, 2010 7:00 pm
Organization: Boston PHP
Location: TBD
Speaker(s): Various
Security can have a significant affect on you and your business, but can seem daunting. One of the most important aspects of creating secure sites is knowing what to look for. In this meetup we’ll talk about: Why you should be concerned about security How PHP security fits in the larger picture Examples of common security concerns, with solutions How you can apply this information to improve your sites While some of the topics we’ll discuss are specific to PHP, most of them apply to a website written in any language. Since this is a PHP meetup, the examples will all be written in PHP. Planned topics include: Cross-Site Request Forgeries Cross-Site Scripting Session Fixation Cross-Site Session Transfer Pseudo-Random Number Generator Attacks SQL Injection Email Injection Path Disclosure Path Traversal Request Value Fixation Invalid Character Encoding File Uploads Password Hashing Magic Quotes and Register Globals Cryptography Mistakes There will be opportunities throughout the talk to ask questions, and links to more information about each topic will be provided. You’re sure to walk away from this meetup better informed about PHP security! Signup now before it fills up!