CHENNAI: Sitting in Chennai a group of ethical hackers is safeguarding servers and systems across the world.Vinod Senthil and his team at InfySec have been up for the past 24 hours watching the Peyta ransomware outbreak . WannaCry has made companies serious about cyber security. While none of our clients have been affected, news of a ransomware attack spreads fear," said Karthick Vigneshwar, director, Infysec.But ethical hackers say their work is not taken seriously by corporates. A week before Zomato's database was hacked, InfySEC accessed user information in Zomato's database as part of the bug bounty programme. We informed Zomato but did not hear from them," said Vigneshwar.With the tools and knowledge to hack a network, website or programme, white hat hackers use their skills to aid corporates in strengthening cyber security.

Source: Times of India June 29, 2017 01:45 UTC