Festive Security: The OWASP New Year's Meetup
Description
A photograph taken from the audience's perspective at a tech event. On a stage, a male speaker stands behind a podium with a laptop, addressing the crowd. Behind him, a large screen displays a presentation slide with a festive, holiday theme, including illustrations of Christmas lights. The slide reads 'New Year's Meetup', '15-12-2023', and 'OWASP Chapter Limassol', with a logo for 'BRO Brain' also visible. The audience is seated and facing the stage; one person in the foreground is wearing a red Santa hat, adding to the holiday atmosphere. This image captures a moment from a real-world developer community event, specifically a local chapter meeting for OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project). For a technical audience, this signifies the importance of continuous learning and community engagement, even during the holiday season, focusing on critical topics like web application security
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The OWASP holiday meetup: the only party where you discuss preventing cross-site scripting while simultaneously hoping the venue's guest Wi-Fi isn't vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack
OWASP holiday meetup rule: the moment someone in a Santa hat asks “who’s got admin?” you rotate every key in prod - last year we found out Log4Shell doesn’t count as seasonal décor
The only security vulnerability at an OWASP meetup is the speaker's confidence when the demo gods decide to strike mid-presentation - that's why we always deploy to production first and call it 'live testing'
Nothing says 'we take security seriously' quite like an OWASP meetup where someone wore a Santa hat - because the only thing getting compromised tonight is the eggnog at the after-party. Though given it's mid-December and they're calling it a 'New Year's Meetup,' I suspect their sprint planning is about as accurate as their threat modeling timelines
The real MVP of any dev meetup: the coffee machine that hasn't 500'd yet
OWASP New Year’s meetup: where XSS got rebranded as “prompt injection” and the decade-old input sanitization ticket finally made the AI roadmap
OWASP meetup in December: least-privilege applies to the backlog; sponsor logos get admin while CSP/SSRF fixes get 'risk accepted until after freeze'
I mean, who knows, would be cool to meet if someone is also there ;) Comment deleted
wtf, i worked there dude, maybe I've seen you 🥴 Comment deleted
BRO, you are channel 💀 Comment deleted
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either way, nya! Comment deleted
ain't he ukrain's president ? Comment deleted
lol admin are you from limassol kalispera file mu Comment deleted
Relocated to the island just 2 weeks ago :) Comment deleted
Welcome then😊 Comment deleted
Thanks! And good evening to you too 😉 Comment deleted
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Writes code on paper to avoid side effects. 😆 Comment deleted
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Using own language in own operating system on own CPU architecture: Comment deleted
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