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b'The Internet industry is currently riding a new wave of investor and consumer excitement, much of which is built upon the promise of "Web 2.0" technologies giving us faster, more exciting, and more useful web applications. One of the fundamentals of "Web 2.0" is known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), which is an amalgam of techniques developers can use to give their applications the level of interactivity of client-side software with the platform-independence of JavaScript.\\n\\t\\n\\tUnfortunately, there is a dark side to this new technology that has not been properly explored. The tighter integration of client and server code, as well as the invention of much richer downstream protocols that are parsed by the web browser has created new attacks as well as made classic web application attacks more difficult to prevent.\\n\\t\\n\\tWe will discuss XSS, Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF), parameter tampering and object serialization attacks in AJAX applications, and will publicly release an AJAX-based XSRF attack framework. We will also be releasing a security analysis of several popular AJAX frameworks, including Microsoft Atlas, JSON-RPC and SAJAX. The talk will include live demos against vulnerable web applications, and will be appropriate for attendees with a basic understanding of HTML and JavaScript. \\n\\t\\n\\tAlex Stamos is a founding partner of iSEC Partners, LLC, a strategic digital security organization. Alex is an experienced security engineer and consultant specializing in application security and securing large infrastructures, and has taught multiple classes in network and application security. He is a leading researcher in the field of web application and web services security and has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences such as Black Hat, CanSecWest, DefCon, SyScan, Microsoft BlueHat and OWASP App Sec. He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.\\n\\t\\n\\tZane Lackey is a Security Consultant with iSEC Partners, LLC, a strategic digital security organization. Zane regularly performs application penetration testing and code review engagements for iSEC, and his research interests include web applications and emerging Win32 vulnerability classes. Prior to iSEC, Zane focused on Honeynet research at the University of California, Davis Computer Security Research Lab under noted security researcher Dr. Matt Bishop. "'