ClubHack 2009!

ClubHack 2009

ClubHack is back! India’s own International Hacker’s Convention is back with its 3rd version with the aim to enable the dissemination, discussion and sharing of deep knowledge in the field of information security and cyber crime investigation.

What: ClubHack 2009, a meeting place for hackers, security professionals, law enforcement agencies, students and all other security enthusiats.
When: Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th December, 2009
Where: ICC or Estique
Registration: Opens in October, 2009. http://clubhack.com/2009/Registration

Rohit Srivastwa

Founder: Rohit Srivastwa
Rohit Srivastwa is a well known security evangelist. He has an expertise in cyber crime investigation and IT infrastructure management. Rohit is actively involved advising several military agencies, law enforcement personnel, media, corporate and Government bodies in these fields. Along with assisting these organizations solving there cases, Rohit is also involved in teaching the related subjects to them. Rohit has trained the police departments of Pune, Mauritius and Malaysia. Rohit Srivastwa is also the founder of ClubHack, a member driven community to spread the security awareness. As his last assignment Rohit was Director Technology at Commonwealth Games Pune (2008) where he delivered the complete technology of games and managed everything which comes under the umbrella of technology.
Currently he is Director Technology and Network Operations for Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi in year 2010.

ClubHack, India’s Own Hacker’s Convention enters its 3rd version on the 5th and 6th of December, 2009. Previously, it was held successfully in December 2007 and 2008.

ClubHack 2009: Call for Papers
SUBMISSION: ClubHack2009 is expecting a good deep knowledge technical presentations/demonstrations on topics from the world of Information Security. These presentations are expected to be of 40 minutes each. The schedule time for each presenter would be 50 minutes out of which 40 minutes are for the presentation & 10 for the question-answer sessions. We’d request you to submit the papers keeping the time constraint in mind.

TOPICS: The following list is made keeping in mind the most interesting topics in hacking & security. This is more of an indicative list, the papers submission can be on other topics also but have to be close to this & the theme of the event.

• Protocol / Application based vulnerability in networks and computers
• Firewall Evasion techniques
• Intrusion detection/prevention
• SPAM fighting
• Data Recovery and Incident Response
• Mobile Security (cellular technologies)
• Virus and Worms
• WLAN and Bluetooth Security
• Analysis of malicious code
• Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
• Computer forensics
• File system security
• Secure coding & code analysis
• Hardware modification
• Patch writing for vulnerabilities
• Open source hacking toolkit
• Cyber Crime & law

Dates:
Opening: 15th August 2009
Closing: 15th October 2009

For more information, check out http://www.clubhack.com/2009

Me in ClubHack Workshop

ClubHack session in progress

Certifications …

Certifications. Hearing the word Certifications, everyone hopes to have a few to make their resume look colorful. But what I would like to ask that does it make any difference? If yes, what difference does it make?

I learn everything they teach in CCNA from college; another friend goes for the Certification of CCNA. What difference does it make? The friend paid 250-300 or maybe $1000 too for the same thing which I did. We both have the same knowledge! How does it make a difference?

A few days ago, me and a friend of mine, Tushar Dalvi planned for a certification of Ethical Hacking, CEH. There are 2 versions of CEH which we can opt for 5 and 6. We finally decided to go for v5, since v6 is too extensive.

For me, certification is just like learning something new. CEH, CCNA, SCJP, everything means learning something new. I appeared for Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker (AFCEH) course, I failed by a mere 0.4%. Fine. But the knowledge I got from it, the things I came to know of networking … it was superb …

I had planned for CCNA, RHCE, CEH when I started my MBA in IT … (believe me, I dont know why I am into MBA). Why all this? Just for the fun of it; just to learn more; just to keep myself busy … strange? yups, i agree. A friend of mine told me, if you are going for RHCE, going for CCNA isn’t logical, both are opposites. But a few days ago, I came to know that CCNA is somewhat related to Network Security. I dont know who is right! Guess, will have to jump again into planning.

CEH? Well, had planned for v6 which is 300% of v5. Tushar told me to first go for v5 and then v6. Nopes, i am an arrogant person, I would directly jump to v6. Thankfully, my bro, Shilen Ramaiya, explained me not to directly jump 10m. First start from a meter. Accepted v5. Hopefully would be appearing for it in 2-3 months.

Had a BackTrack session on the 8th of December where this superb person gave a lecture. Mr. Kunal Sehgal. He gave a superb presentation on BackTrack. He is a certified BackTrack professional. When he told us how the BackTrack certification is held, I was all geared up and determined to appear for the exam. The BackTrack exam, according to Kunal, is a 24 hour practical examination, where you have to break into a server. Cool … fun … lets see it then. But well, apart from the difficulty of the endevour, I also want to be the best in Network Security and Hacking, and hence the interest in this Certification.

Tushar also asked me to take CCNA with him. The same day, a new subject started in my 2nd semester, Internet Routing Protocol and Architecture. Discussing if I should go for it or not, he told me that there is a difference between in having a certificate and not having a certificate. I havent learnt it till now. Anyone there to help me out?

SCJP. That was one certification that I had planned in my 3rd semester of graduation. After learning Java for just 6 months, SCJP seemed to be something superb. I love Java. I used to write all my programs in it. I used to sit on the computer only to work on Java; why? I loved it. But till date I havent been able to appear for SCJP.

I even wanted to get a few Microsoft certifications (MCSE, MCSA, etc) when I was in my grad school. Again, just for the fun of it!

Any answers?