Media Release

Mangalore, Oct 5: St Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor, here, was a zonal centre for Hack Tricks 2014, an ethical hacking workshop and competition which was recently conducted by Techfest- IIT Bomaby in association with Wegilant Net Solutions Pvt Ltd, an IIT Bombay Alumnus Venture at the Fr Fred Memorial hall of the college.

Shivang Desai, cyber security analyst at IIT Bombay and certified ethical hacker and Hashim Shaikh, cyber security analyst and certified ethical hacker were the resource persons for the workshop.

Hack Tricks was nation’s best ethical hacking workshop program. In the workshop students were trained on ethical hacking and various other emerging technologies like penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, cyber forensic, cyber consultant etc.
 
After the workshop, a competition was organized and the winner of that competition will be competing for the finale at IIT Bombay Campus during Techfest 2014, to be held on January 3 to 5, 2014.

All participants were certified by Techfest, IIT Bombay 2014 and Wegilant Net Solutions Pvt Ltd which will be industrially recognized certificate. Certificate of Merit will be awarded to zonal winner. Certificate of Co-ordination was given to the coordinators.

More than 100 students of BE and MCA participated in the workshop from in and around colleges of Mangalore.

Jude Isac Lobo and Karthik Mohan, students of SJEC were the coordinators.