The hacker tells all

BANGALORE: Perhaps for the first time, webmasters in the

country will get a first person account of the experiences of a hacker. White

Hat hacker Tom Cervenka will conduct a seminar on ‘Hacking Portals and Web

sites — Prevention and Damage Control’ on Thursday in Bangalore.

Cervenka, who is the Internet Security Expert in Internet

Component Management Group (iCMG) Inc. is popularly known as Blue Adept. He will

touch upon the biggest worry that a webmaster of a dotcom carries on his

shoulder — Web security.

Cervenka is credited to have identified security loopholes in

leading high traffic Web sites that include Yahoo, Lycos, eBay, Hotmail, Excite

and Eudora.

A hacker is identified as a white hat or black hat, depending

on the direction he uses his talent. White hat hackers are those who identify

possible security loopholes and advice the company on measures to be taken to

avoid such a situation.

iCMG is also conducting a special workshop by Cervenka for

officers from the police force, the defense department and CIDs. Some of the top

level IAS and IPS officers are expected to attend this session. A few officials

from the defense research organizations are also attending the general seminar.

According to iCMG, Cervenka will help find holes in Web

services (such as online auction, Web mails, services with chat areas). He will

focus on ways to manage HTML attachments in Web services and prevent any

malicious use.

Click here for the agenda of the seminar.