NULL [0x00] is a Network Security community for ethical hackers, security professionals and security enthusiasts, born out of the need for a centralized knowledge base in security and the fact that security is treated as an add-o and ignored many a times. It is a step to move towards immunity from security.
We had the first workshop at I2IT Pune and it was a great success.
The major attractions of the workshop were the Wireless Security and the TCP/IP and NMAP workshops where in the audience not only learned the theoretical things but also saw in real-time that how insecure is a WEP secured wireless network and how one can steal Gmail password which is considered to be very secure by means of ARP poisoning and fake certificates.
The support and hospitality at I2IT by the volunteers and staff was excellent. We never had expected such great response from them and we appreciate the effort.

Speakers @ NULL were:
Aseem Jakhar (Founder: NULL security community) A network security and open source enthusiast (and a system programmer for living). He has contributed to the development of various security products and networking/security modules including:
– Firewall
– Regex filters.
– Baysian filters.
– Heuristic filters.
– Genetic Algorithm based score generator for heuristic filters.
– Advanced attachment filters.
– Multicast packet-reflection daemon.
– SMTP engine.
– DNSBL engine.
Aseem is an active speaker at security/open source conferences like Blackhat Europe 2008, ClubHack 2008, Gnunify 2007. He was also invited to speak at Inbox/Outbox UK 2008. He is a C|EH from Ec-Council and is actively involved in security research. He has also given security advisories to various organizations including banks.

Murtuja Bharmal (Co-founder – NULL)
Murtuja is a Linux Kernel and Network Security maniac. Earning livelihood by working as a System Programmer. He has been contributing in development of various Network Security
products like Firewall, VPN, Application Proxies, and Authentication Modules for the past 5 years. Murtuja is a C|EH from EC-Council, is actively involved in Security practices, development, consultancy, with prestigious organizations. He has single handedly developed firewall product and got it compliant with ICSA-Labs and also has expertise in customization, security patching and integration of open
source products like SQUID, IPTables, VRRP, and OpenSwan.

Rohit Srivastwa (Member – NULL)
Founder of ClubHack, has several years experience in providing consultancy and training in the fields of Information security, Cyber Crime Investigation and Penetration Testing. He is actively involved advising and teaching several military agencies, law enforcement personnel, Corporates and Government bodies in these fields

Ajit Hatti (Member – NULL)
Ajit Hatti is a “Software Architect & System Programmer” by profession and “Network Security, Linux Enthusiast”. From last 4 years he has been contributing in research & development of security products like IPS/UTM/Mail Security & Network Scanners with various renowned Organizations. Ajit is also actively contributing in vulnerability research of various protocol implementations and has been researching on modern techniques of Fingerprinting & Application/OS detection. Ajit is also associated with PLUG, CSI, and Ubuntu’s development and testing.

Other Members Present :
Kinjal Ramaiya
Tushar Dalvi
Tara Lodh
Vipul Kalia
Utkarsh Verma
Abhishek
Ranjit Mohan