JavaScript Security - Seeing the possibilities of a sand-boxed scripting language
Northern Virginia Software Symposium
Reston · November 2 - 4, 2007
About this Presentation
JavaScript's popularity in recent years has brought with it the attention of hackers, white and black. Both sides looking for ways to do things that weren't intended with the scripting language.
In this talk we'll look at the more popular, but also some of the interesting JavaScript security issues that could effect your applications or users. We'll use Digg.com to introduce CSRF as a case study.
Senior Software Engineer at Near Infinity
Jason Harwig full-time job is a senior software engineer at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development and consulting services company headquartered in Reston, Virginia. In his spare time he runs Pine Point Software LLC, writing Mac OS X applications in Cocoa/Objective-C.
His interests include Cocoa, JavaScript, OpenGL and user-interface design.