Meetings/2013-06-27-midday

Attack vectors & MediaWiki
Mike Gagnon is a security researcher who works at Twitter. He's been doing research on defending against algorithmic complexity attacks. He and Ivan Balepin have a report coming out that analyzes attack vectors in a few popular open source applications, one of which is MediaWiki. They're interested in presenting their findings.

For background, check Manual:Security.

Solr based Search
Nik Everett and Chad Horohoe have started work to replace our current mostly home grown high performance Search backend with the intent of leveraging Solr, a popular open source search tool to provide a more fault tolerant, faster, and more relevant search while reducing our dependency on high end servers.