I've been participating in the security and networking workshop at IITB
for the last three days, and here's a little report on what's been
happening there.
There were lectures by our own Jaju. He spoke about different security
attacks including IP spoofing, DoS, DNS spoofing, sniffing, session
hijacking, etc. and demonstrated tools like nmap for port scanning.
On the second day, Anil Gracias demonstrated how to analyse log files
for patterns of probing and possible break ins. He demonstrated tools
like snort, tripwire, and netsaint.
Flynn Remedios - the advisor for the Mumbai police cyber crime cell -
also spoke. He basically explained how to delete the history from
Internet Explorer and how to give incorrect information when signing up
for a yahoo account, and how he threatened yahoo.com with his influence
with the Mumbai Police. He also told us a lot about his personal life
and why he doesn't use Linux/Unix.
Apparently, in 1991, when he was studying C/C++ under Vijay Mukhi, Mukhi
said that Unix is for Eunuchs, and so from that day on he has been
afraid to touch unix, possibly because he thinks it will make him one.
My advice to anyone/any company who wants to hire him as a consultant.
Just make sure you only consult him on how to walk around with one foot
in your mouth.
The third day was taken by Dr. Leena Chandran-Wadia, on SSL and the
different kinds of message encryption/signing. Leena has an excellent
command over the subject, and seemed to have done her homework not just
on the subject, but also on the audience. In all, this was the best
lecture of all.
Mr. Ambrish Kumar took the next lecture on IPSec, touching on
implementations in windows and linux. There were some doubts as to
whether the linux kernel has built in IPSec compatibility or if it
requires a recompile. Maybe someone on the list can shed some light on
this.
IPSec seems a very interesting topic, and those who have the opportunity
should try it out.
There's one more day to go for the workshop, I'll keep you'll posted.
Philip
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