ETHICAL HACKING

Two day workshop on “ Ethical Hacking and Information Security” was organized by Infi - Zeal Technologies on 12th & 13th September 2015 at Delhi Technological University, New Delhi. Infi - Zeal Technologies founded by Alumni of IIT Delhi with the fast knowledge in the field of Information Security and Embedded Systems. Infi - Zeal Technologies aim is to safeguard the future from cyber frauds and to deliver the quality products in the latest technologies.

This two day event was to spread the cognizance about Information Security, latest attacks in virtual world and Hacking. Akshit chauhan (15007) from CSE department of Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon, piloted the two day workshop in which around 100 students from Delhi Technological University and Indraprastha University had participated.

Day 1 , Akshit chauhan started the session by discussing on Information Security and its aspects. Information security is the practice of defending information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction. He discussed about various types of hackers, hacker communities, basics of networking and terminologies related to hacking and IT-Security. Hacker is a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage, etc.

Several precautions for Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook user such as clicking on malicious links , fake mails, lottery mails, compromising victims, making own malware by Batch scripting and malware analysis tools were explained in details. Malware or malicious software is a computer software intended to harm the host operating system or to steal sensitive data from users, organizations or companies. Malware Analysis is the study of a malware by dissecting its different components and studying its behavior on the host computer's operating system.

Day 2 Akshit explained the students about hacking and penetration testing in which they learnt to perform simple attack to hack website and exploiting it. During the second session various topics such as Hacking android phones, cracking software like windows calculator, Operating systems via Metasploit framework and WinRaR using reverse engineering and WI - FI (WEP / WPA) hacking were also discussed in details. Metasploit is a computer security project that provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine. WinRAR is a trialware file archiver and compressor utility for Windows. It can create archives in RAR or ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous archive file formats.

In the end, an Information Security Awareness quiz was held for students. The workshop was informative and enriched the knowledge base of students. The feedback given by the students of Delhi Technological University and Indraprastha University, was excellent as the students have learnt about the attacks related to information security and were able to gather basic information to safeguard themselves from such attacks in the virtual world.

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