Top Indian Hackers | Real Hackers of India
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There has been a lot of commotion in the Indian Hacking scene lately, and I expressed some pretty strong views regarding that.
When it comes to hacking, every other guy tends to tape the "hacker" word with his name/codename without even realizing its significance. Then there is Facebook ...Have a look at it -
Seriously guys..what were they thinking ?! I am still counting the number of “Indian Cyber Army” India has and the number of groups tend to increase recycling all the content, same VIP forums, same deface techniques, zero original research.
Then there is Ankit Fadiya...dont let me even get started...
In the end tired of all the bullshit around, I decided to cover an article on the REAL INDIAN HACKERS (or Hackers of Indian Origin), folks who are actually dedicated to security and are hackers in real sense. Lets start, shall we ?
Pranav Mistry
The famed 6th sense developer,Pranav Mistry is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. SixthSense has recently attracted global attention. Among some of his previous work, Pranav has invented Mouseless - an invisible computer mouse; intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages; a pen that can draw in 3D; and a public map that can act as Google of physical world. Pranav has commercialized his invention, the sixth sense and SixthSense is now being actively used at NASA. It is rumored that Facebook tried to acquire the technology from Pranav for a reportedly $2 billion and 5% ownership of Facebook, but Pranav decided to open source it instead.
Thats what any real hacker do. Hats Off to him.
Here you can read more about him at Amarjit’s Blog
Koushik Dutta or “Koush”
“Set Your Phone Free..”Rings a bell ? Koushik Dutta or “Koush” is responsible for Clockworkmod recovery and Rom Manager for Android rooting and the core member of famed UnrEVOked team. He has been a .net developer from heart and had his internship initially at Microsoft and is a former MVP. He decided to leave Microsoft and hack Android cellphones like there was no tomorrow. Sony approached him after geohot humped them like anything but he politely declined .
Bravo for his efforts, we are able to root painlessly using UnREVOked.
Now only if UnrEVOked can release UnrEVOked 3.33 soon :)
Vivek Ramchandran
Vivek Ramachandran has been working in the computer and network security domain, in some form or the other, for the past 7 years and has worked with Industry giants like Reliance, Cisco, Microsoft. He was among the Top 10 Indian finalists in the Microsoft shootout competition among the list of 65000 participants. Then he decided to join Airtight Networks and there discovered Caffe Latte attack attack along with his colleague MD Sohail Ahmad from Airtight Networks ,the wifi hacking technique that doesn't required you to be in active vicinity of the wifi zone.
That said, he is one of the researcher to lookout.
Almost everybody at NULL Security Community & Garage4hackers
I said it before and I will say it again, the Only active Indian hacking community is NULL community, and the best Indian Hacking Forum where real hackers meet is garage4hackers.com hands on.
Shoutz to garage crew :)
Folks at Indian Honeynet Chapter
Now we are talking..Indian Honeynet chapter is the collaborative effort of the best geeks and hackers .The focus of honeypot is on Worms and Botnets and developing an Open Source tool to study and counter brute force attacks/ phishing through wifi. Its also being setup as potential web-app honeypot,and aims on improving detection and forensic techniques. Heading the ship are L Shriram, K K Mookhey, Amit Chugh, Asim Jakhar and a lot of professionals who are dedicated in the field of computer security.
Hari Prasad
The famed security researcher Hari Prasad is the winner of EFF Pioneer award, as he along with Alex Halderman, and Rop Gonggrijp were able to study an electronic voting machine (EVM) and found significant vulnerabilities that would not be difficult to execute. For his troubles, Prasad was arrested and jailed in August, held without bail in Mumbai for a week. Though he is now out on bail and in the United States, he still faces criminal prosecution for alleged theft of the EVM and other charges.
The genius of the Indian system is that instead of making machines tamper proof and more efficient, they arrested him.
According to the Indian news agency PTI, the magistrate who released Prasad on bail noted that "no offence was disclosed with Hari Prasad's arrest and even if it was assumed that [the electronic voting machine] was stolen it appears that there was no dishonest intention on his part...he was trying to show how [electronic voting] machines can be tampered with."
Jayant Krishnamurthy
Jayant Krishnamurthy is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, CMU and his interests include are machine learning, machine reading, common sense reasoning, information extraction, knowledge representation, and their applications in AI and NLP (shamelessly taken from his website). He is one of the researchers who are behind designing MD6 algorithm (yeah you heard it right, the evolution of MD5). He is a top level computer theorist and researcher and is a real life hacker. He teaches computer and network security and you must ahve a look at the problems and solutions at the given link.
For the lighter side,you can have a look at the funny flash movie based on his real life experiences at high school.
I guess, you now have an actual idea of the Indian hackers now :) These guys are real and are deemed worthy of having the hacker emblem with them.
About the author : Rishabh Dangwal
Rishabh Dangwal is a no-nonsense network geek who has got a thing for guitars, retro games and emulators. When he is not tinkering with devices and gadgets, he can be found reading novels by Fredrick Forsyth. Follow him on Twitter
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34 Responses to “Top Indian Hackers | Real Hackers of India”
April 30, 2011 at 9:37 PM
One of the best articles that I have ever read mate. This is truly a tribute to the one who are contributing to the scene and in a very positive way unlike being stupid enough to get some tools and then start defacement!
What I really would love to see people taking inspiration from the above hackers.
LONG LIVE ....!
April 30, 2011 at 10:46 PM
Real Nice Read. Thanks a lot for your effort
May 1, 2011 at 12:15 AM
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May 2, 2011 at 4:37 PM
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May 2, 2011 at 5:03 PM
Thanks May :)
May 2, 2011 at 5:04 PM
:)
May 2, 2011 at 5:04 PM
Thanks man... :)
May 2, 2011 at 5:12 PM
nice...
May 12, 2011 at 2:58 AM
How true.
May 14, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Wonderful. Hope it can boost the mind of beginner's hacker.
Nice. Knowledge is free.
May 14, 2011 at 10:49 PM
Nice. Love it. The best way to be an ethical hacker is to be inside the mind of black hat hacker. BE CREATIVE. LET'S THINK OUT OF THE BOX.
Think sharp. Act smart.
May 14, 2011 at 11:01 PM
Nice. Love it. BE CREATIVE. LET'S THINK OUT OF THE BOX.
Think sharp. Act smart.
May 26, 2011 at 1:07 PM
How about LavaKumar ?
He is one of the best in the world focusing on Web.
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-ad-10/bh-ad-10-speaker_bios.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.org/files/author/6741/
June 20, 2011 at 2:25 AM
Buddy then who is ankit fadia????
June 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM
he Is a fake. why don't u read about him on my blog.
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September 3, 2011 at 10:04 PM
Coolest article ever, buddy. Hands down to Pranav Mistry.
November 20, 2011 at 1:29 AM
thanks for this useful articles actually i do not know what to say,may god bless you
December 9, 2011 at 12:13 AM
yup all n00bish non innovative things ...he is better a business man than a security expert....
December 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM
Dear Rishabh ...
i want to hack an account ... what will you prefer a hacker or a keylogger like SniperSpy.
If hacker pls prefer someone.
thanks
December 31, 2011 at 7:00 AM
i like to be a friend 2nu cuz i lrnt hw MCSE + ISS wth ur affliated sch NIIT,plz can u make me a WHITE HAT HACKER
January 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM
hii i m reley ....sorry ni dont now?
February 12, 2012 at 2:03 PM
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February 13, 2012 at 10:15 AM
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June 6, 2012 at 8:43 PM
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September 24, 2012 at 2:45 PM
great members
October 4, 2012 at 9:54 PM
fake hackers this aint hackers man u foolish indians
October 4, 2012 at 10:02 PM
India's Top 5 Hackers...!!
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India well only five hackers we know, who really have good spot on google so here are these..
1. ANKIT FADIA
Well known ethical hacker .Brand Ambasdor of Relience.I dont thing that pretty much info on him is required to give you.He has written over 10 books on Hacking and at age of 14 his first book on hackingwas published.At 15 age he hacked into chip magazine website.
2. Rahul Dutt Awasthy
He is the one gye who having world's no 1 ethical hacking blog www.rahulhackingarticles.wetpaint.com on the internet with over 30,000 users all around the world. These days he is working in VIACOM 18 network and also pursuing his MBA from a foreign .
3.Ashik aka Hungry -hacker
Having his very good hacking website after Rahul Dutt Awasthy.Ashik Having good knowledge spots on many hacking and computer security issues. He is student of Nirma University, Ahmadabad. He has his website named as www.hungy-hackers.com.This boy have a very good taste of picking and writing computer security articles.
4. Rahul Tyagi
A little guy from Punjab appears first time on google with his ethical hacking website www.ethicalhacking.do.am .He is the one guy having really good skills in computer security. These days he is studying in Lovely Professional University pursuing his MCA and Brand Ambassador of TCIL-IT Chandigarh as Ethical Hacking Trainee.
5.Rafay Baloch
A guy which has lots of experience in Hacking/security.He currently a computer engineering student running a blog with over 1 lakh visitors per month ,http://rafayhackingarticles.blogspot.com. Great webiste please have atleast one look.
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January 31, 2013 at 7:07 PM
I'm surprised to see Pranav Mistry on the top
April 1, 2013 at 4:07 AM
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April 12, 2013 at 5:13 AM
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