BlogSecurity is the only organization that deals with social networking and web blog security exclusively. It is a non-profit project whose members donate freely of their time, efforts and money.
Mission:
Our goal is to provide you with the security advice, services, tools and critical information that you need to better secure and build your blog.
Meet the team:
Enjoys walks on the beach and quiet hikes in the mountains. One of his most memorable moments was being shacked up in a little cabin in the Lake District with a certain beautiful individual.
I’ve been working in IT security for a couple of years now and am a Marketing Manager for a leading security consultancy in the UK. I enjoy creating a PR buzz around the company’s services and have generated a huge amount of press coverage over the past two years. I’m most interested in website security, which has led me to become involved in BlogSec. I really love having input into the site and its content and it’s great to see it growing successfully. I live in a cottage in the countryside and am shortly expecting my first child with my husband.
I started programming four years ago as a hobby. My first applications where written in Visual Basic and I had a quite active forum time. Then I switched over to my current field of PHP, where I released some Plugins before I joined BlogSec as well. I stumbled upon the idea of BlogSec on David’s primary website michaeldaw.org, where I was a contributor. I’ve just started studying informatics in Jena, Germany.
I first got into web application security when writing my diploma back in 2004. I created a content management system with a focus on accessibility, which was designed to be used by optically handicapped and even blind people. I then started to focus on XSS and SQL injection, which is the kind of work I really enjoy. I was a participant on sla.ckers.org and had the chance to sharpen my skills. Meanwhile, I work at ormigo.com as developer and CSO. I spend my work time with working on the application, developing frontend modules with jQuery, maintain the backend with framework based PHP including deep security checks before the deploy phases and sharing my knowledge with co-workers.
I’ve been working in the web industry for over 11 years now. I was a big fan of Perl when I originally started web design. I now work for a big insurance firm near Manchester. I spend most of my daily working life developing web applications and learning new programming techniques. I’m always hacking my own stuff and trying to improve my code on a daily basis. My security work is done in my spare time and I often spend many hours in front of a monitor into the early hours of the morning. I’m married, have two dogs and I love playing and watching football when I’m not hacking.
I am a researcher in Computer Science Security and am an active member of IEEE. During my free time, I implement open source projects such as IENA (.sourceforge.net) and SpamPig (.sourceforge.net) and PerSeo (cesena.ing2.unibo/perseo/).
Currently I am interested in remote administration security and have implemented a new kind of remote administration concept named RoboAdmin (RA). It’s an “intelligent” bot placed on a well defined Meeting Place. I am also interested in electronic voting security and my personal challenge is to build a new electronic voting process that is vendor independent and self controlled. My other current area of interest is social networking spam and I’m looking at building a prolog-based engine that is able to understand the spam percentage in a comment using Bayesian methodologies.
