Franziska Bühler doesn't feel too comfortable in the limelight. The CISO of a Swiss mid-sized IT company rather likes to work through lists of hundreds of bypasses than being at the forefront. Talking to her, it gets clear quickly: Fränzi loves a challenge. “Once I set my mind to something, I follow through,” she says. …
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The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set project is very happy to announce Microsoft as new GOLD sponsor. There have been sporadic contacts with the Azure WAF engineering team for several years and we are now taking the next step. Microsoft and OWASP CRS are establishing a formalized partnership in the form of a sponsoring agreement. …
Let the CRS project be your Valentine: The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set project will hold the first post-pandemic Community Summit at the Dublin Convention Center in Ireland on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. We invite the whole CRS community, users, developers, integrators, and sponsorsto meet with us for an exchange of thoughts, technical talks, and networking. After the …
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The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) project is proud to announce a new sponsoring partner: Bug Bounty Switzerland – a startup that has pioneered the collaboration with ethical hackers in Switzerland and today is Switzerland’s leading provider of bug bounty programs and public trust initiatives. Since 2022, they are the strategic partner of the National Cyber …
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Pizza, pasta, pesto ... pineapple? This was one of the many important topics (and one of the most controversial) discussed at the CRS developer retreat 2022 in Italy. The annual CRS developer team retreat is always a highlight of the year, finally meeting face-to-face again and not just via chat. This time, the backdrop for …
Astronaut? Garbage truck driver? Electrical engineer? Metalsmith? In the end, Hungarian Ervin Hegedüs became a software developer. Within the Core Rule Set project, he contributes primarily to tool development and packaging. “New team members should above all be team players,” says Ervin. Ervin Hegedüs has had no shortage of interesting career ideas in his 51-year …
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He likes to play board games and the guitar, and he loves to fix bypasses to CRS rules: Italian Andrea Menin joined the Core Rule Set team in 2018. The most important requirement for anybody joining the project, he says, is to enjoy it. He never wanted to be a locomotive engineer or an astronaut, …
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Yesterday, we released CRS versions 3.3.3 and 3.2.2 with important security improvements. Unfortunately, backporting the fixes from our development branch 4.0 introduced a regression which was only found after publication. As a result, some Paranoia Level 2 rules would activate even when running in Paranoia Level 1. This did not harm security but may introduce …
Release announcement covering fixes for CVE-2022-39955, CVE-2022-39956, CVE-2022-39957 and CVE-2022-39958, additional security fixes and security fixes in the latest ModSecurity releases 2.9.6 and 3.0.8. The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) team is pleased to announce the release of two new CRS versions.Edit: Updated download links now to refer to the fixed versions. Version 3.3.4 …
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Dear all, A few months ago we happily announced the first Release Candidate for Core Rule Set 4.0. Our original plan was to finish the 4.0 release as fast as possible. However, we found ourselves in a unique situation for our project. After the Release Candidate, a large CRS user organized a CRS Bug Bounty …