Hyderabad, April 23...: E2 Labs, a Hyderabad based Top 100 Private Companies in Asia (RED-HERRING), one of the fastest growing Information Security companies and Ranchi, Jharkhand headquartered National Anti-Hacking Group(NAG), a non profitable organization announced a collaboration between them to create awareness about Cyber Security to reduce the increasing cyber crimes in the country.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday Mr. Zaki Qureshy, CMD of E-2 Labs and Mr. Vineet Kumar, a 18 year old, 12th standard student who Founded NAG and Global Ethical hackers Association (GEHA) jointly informed that as part of their alliance both organizations come together to organise seminars, training programs and security summits. And they announced an new initiate "Cyber Parent", "Cyber Kid" under which they will organize free seminars all over the country targeting at school children and parents free of cost.
There is an increasing threat to our Information Security industry than before. In the first half of June 2006, a total of 1,752 Indian websites were defaced, of which 39 were ".gov.in" websites. A huge amount of Indian top level domain site- .co.in, net.in, .gov.in, .org.in, .nic.in, .ernet.in, .ac.in and .res.in---were defaced. With commercial sector contributing to 68.3 percent of defacements, and the Government sector contributing to 27.3 per cent of them. www.fmc.com, www.railnet.com and www.ieg.com were the three Indian government websites that were defaced on the VSNL network. There are many websites still have loopwholes and are vulnerable to hackers. Such organizations can be alerted to strengthen their sites.
It is in this context these organizations have embarked on creating a mass awareness on possible threats and ways and means to over come the same.
National Anti-Hacking Group is a team of Hackers and Security experts from across the globe involved into creating awareness in the field of cyber security and to reduce the increasing Cyber Crimes. It was established in the year 2003 by Vineet Kumar. He has also founded Global Ethical Hackers Association(GEHA). Today GEHA has a membership of over 10,000, thus becoming one of the largest security communities in Asia-Pacific Region.
NAG is also into research. It does research in the field of IT security and ethical hacking. Discovering loopholes in websites, networks etc..Developing exploits and providing the advisories to overcome the exploit or loopholes.
We call ourselves as 3l33t h4x0r.We are Professional Penetration Testers. Our members also do security audits, stuff for BS7799 and training for Information Security related subjects. Our members also wrote a white paper on how to secure Windows 2000, one of the first with detailed instructions...O'Reilly even published a book on the subject. Members also appeared on BBC Radio in the U. K. talking about computer security and viral outbreaks, spoken at various security conferences and co-authored some articles about the same subject for various resources. They have recently taken up writing for some Malaysian magazines too (mainly on security/networking) informed Vineet Kumar.
Our Specialization is Ethical hacking, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, security architecture assessment, ISO27001, information security management, training, open source solutions, content management, courseware development and other areas just asmalware, cryptovirology and Cyber Forensics, disclosed Vineet.
Global Ethical Hackers Association is a common place where all the Hackers from well known hacking & security communities are united together under one roof to do something constructive and for a social cause. Presently Global Ethical Hackers Association Admin Team consists of experts from various well known Hackers & Security Groups & Organizations, Vineet stated.
We are working on a no profit basis that is why experts from well known security communities are getting attached with GEHA and it's initiatives to work for a good cause and for the welfare of humanity. It's the only Association of Security Experts and Ethical Hackers worldwide involved into Social Service while National Anti-Hacking Group is also a NGO registered under Jharkhand Govt, Vineet added.
Several well known organizations and establishments utilized the services of NAG sofar. Coming together, we want to leverage each others expertise informed Zaki Qureshy. We have already done lot of work in this area. We can help NAG to further its cause, as it being an a non profit organization, resources will always be a constraint in fulfilling its objectives. Hence, we have come together for common good to change the face of India's IT-security for the better, Zaki stated.
For more information Mr. Vineet Kumar can be reached through vineet@ethicalhackers.org, exploitcoder@hushmail.com / Zaki through zaki@e2-labs.com
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