Thomas Röthlisberger started work as an IT security analyst for Compass Security AG in January 2010. Compass is an incorporated company based in Jona (Saint Gall) Switzerland specializing in security assessments and forensic investigations. The company carries out penetration tests and security reviews for their clients, enabling them to assess the security of their IT systems against hacking attacks, as well as advising them on suitable measures to improve their defenses. Before he was working as a .NET software engineer for 4 years.

LOCATION: Luzern
KEYWORDS: Concept, Lessons learned, Technology

SPEAKER: Thomas Röthlisberger   COMPANY: Compass Security AG
SLIDES: 130528_HTML5_v1.1_handout.pdf

HTML5 is the new upcoming web standard which introduces several new features that can be used by web applications and web browsers. Through these new features new vulnerabilities are introduced as well. While in HTML 4.01 the attacks mainly focus on web servers, with HTML5 this boundary has moved towards the client. New HTML5 features enable possibilities for directly attacking the web browser and not all can be circumvented by secure implementation on the server side, because some HTML5 features are the vulnerabilities itself.

LANGUAGE: Talk: de / Slides: en

Thomas Röthlisberger started work as an IT security analyst for Compass Security AG in January 2010. Compass is an incorporated company based in Jona (Saint Gall) Switzerland specializing in security assessments and forensic investigations. The company carries out penetration tests and security reviews for their clients, enabling them to assess the security of their IT systems against hacking attacks, as well as advising them on suitable measures to improve their defenses. Before he was working as a .NET software engineer for 4 years.

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