This is the CRS newsletter covering the period from Early September until today. We held our monthly community chat. We had quite a few people stop by. Special thanks to our active participants: dune73 fzipi csanders franbuehler lifeforms emphazer fgs squared spartantri ossie buddyleer During the chat we discussed the following We will be moving …
This week we saw the release of another named vulnerability (-_-). This time it was entitled: Optionsbleed. While the name provided is meant in reference to Heartbleed, this vulnerability isn't nearly as far reaching. The vulnerability only affected Apache hosts with a very particular configuration and as a result only 0.0466% of the Alexa top …
A little background Last month we announced the general availability of the Framework for Testing WAFs (FTW) version 1.0. You can read the whole post here, But this is only the beginning of the story. With the release of OWASP CRS v3.0 we started integrating a more agile, test driven development methodology that we believe …
The OWASP Project maintains an open source set of rules known as the the OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS). The CRS implements protections for the well known, broad classes of web application vulnerabilities identified by OWASP. Over time, this set of rules has become the most popular ruleset for ModSecurity and also found its way …