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News October 3, 2013

Websec at DerbyCon 2013

A summary of Websec's participation at DerbyCon 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky, where Roberto Salgado presented new optimisation and obfuscation techniques for evading SQL injection detection in modern IDS.

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Websec is proud to have participated at the third edition of DerbyCon, which was held in Louisville, Kentucky. Roberto Salgado, CTO of Websec, presented his talk "') UNION SELECT `This_Talk` AS ('New Optimization and Obfuscation Techniques’)%00" at the "Break it" track on Sunday afternoon. Roberto's talk focused on different techniques that can be used to optimize and obfuscate SQL Injections in order to make attacks more effective and evade the detection of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). For a complete list of past and upcoming events where Websec will be participating, please refer to the conferences section.

Thanks to Adrian Crenshaw (@irongeek_adc), videos for most of the presentations are already available online. Roberto's talk can be found embedded below. For a complete list of the talks, please refer to this link. Roberto will be presenting again on November 21st at AppSecUSA in New York. If you are serious about security or just happen to be in the area, be sure to stop by and catch Roberto's talk.

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