‘Ethical hackers’ are here to help you check hacking

Says Shrivastwa, “It’s a knowledge-sharing platform that comes up with ways that will equip even a layman with methods to prevent hacking as well as trace hackers.”

The club today organised a seminar, at the ICC Trade Tower on Senapati Bapat Road, where software engineers, incident response specialists, security professionals and research analysts guided the people on certain unknown and unexplored folders in their system files.

Says Chetan Gupta, incident response specialist, “if you feel that someone is prying on your files you can check that by giving a simple command called regedit. Also, in your windows registry is user assist that will provide you with all the information you need about which folder has been visited how many times. The $logfile entries keep a record of all file system transactions. Adds Gupta, “Even the deletion of a file leaves several entries in $Logfile. So if the person has deleted a file you can recover it. If you can’t, you can get the information regarding when it was deleted and trace the person.” Gupta is also a member of the club. Another member of the group and a virus research analyst Rahul Mohandas advises, “People should keep on updating their Winzip, quicktime and other softwares because if they don’t they are definitely making their systems vulnerable. Installing antivirus alone is not enough. Hackers all over the world are going beyond the security of antiviruses.”