India's Best Fake Hacker - Ankit Fadia , Claims without Proofs
There
are only few people in the hacking field who have never heard about
Ankit Fadia ,then so called self declared “India’s Best Ethical
Hacker” ,There are lot of arguments and facts against him , Some people
says he is not a HACKER he is just a good businessman who knows how
to make fool of the peoples . The thing that made him so much famous is
only Media coverage nothing else. Now lets talk about Fadia's claims
and some facts about him.
At the
age of 14 Ankit Fadia started a website called “HackingTruths”, which
he claims was judged as the “second best hacking site in the world by
the FBI”. I don’t know when did FBI started rating hacking sites? it is
because nothing such like this happened. It a world know truth FBI
never ranks any website
Fadia
also claims that when he was 14, he trashed the front page of an
Indian magazine's website. He then sent an e-mail to the editor
confessing to the hack, suggesting counter measures. let me ask a
question has he ever submitted any exploit? did he ever created tools
for hacking ? the answer is N0, a big NO .
He
is also claims to be involved in decrypting a message from an Al Qaeda
operative. But when there is not a single published work of Ankit
Fadia involvement about cryptography or cryptanalysis then how the how
he can decrypt any message and that too from AL QAEDA and Most
intelligence agencies like NSA have expert cryptanalyst with PhD’s and
super fast clusters to get their job done. They wont require a 16 year
old.
He
is also been reported to be working with CIA and FBI . yeah you heard
it right CIA and FBI .I think Americans have shortage of hackers in
their own country that’s why they are hiring such noobs.
"Fadia
had claimed that his alert to a U.S. spy agency had prevented an
attack by Pakistani hackers. However, he never divulged the name of the
agency, citing security reasons."
In
December 2009 Fadia’s business site, hackingmobilephones.com was
hacked by a spammer promoting pharmaceutical products for erectile
dysfunction. Fadia again "claimed it had happened because of a fault in
the server that hosts his site. "The problem lies in the server and
all the sites hosted by it have been infected." However all web servers
give their customers an option to build their own security installing
their own (customer’s) software and patches when they opt for private
servers. Might be MR FADIA Did not have any excuse better then this one
.
Recently
in his commercial seminar he called Indian hacking groups as Indian
cyber criminals.the angry hackers crew hacked and defaced his site. So
now the question is the so called “INDIA’S BEST HACKER” cant he secure
his site from other hackers?
Now lets talk about his courses and books :–
At
15, his book on Ethical Hacking made him the youngest author to be
published by Macmillan India. he claims that his books are being “used
as text books in computer security courses across South-East Asia”
lol
what a joke.If you will ever read his books you will find that he has
copied each and every single page from other best selling hacking books
.and the harshest part of all he don’t even gives credits to the
authors and other hackers , he simply steals their work.
His
course ANKIT FADIA Certified Ethical Hacker (AFCEH) powered by
reliance claims to make you an security expert in just “3 bloody
months” . WOW what an opportunity for a newbie to become a hacker .
but the thing is the certificate given by him are not valid . Read this
The
thing is no one can be a hacker or a good security expert in just 3
months. It takes a lot of time or I say it takes many years to become a
HACKER.
In one of his seminars he said that Linux is CRAP and advised them to use windows for hacking purpose rather then Linux.
I
haven’t seen any hacker saying Linux a crap and advising to use
windows . and neither will a hacker say these words because he knows
Linux the the mother of all hackers. there is no hacking without Linux
possible in today’s world except social engineering .
1.) According to Wendy McAuliffe at ZDNet UK, Fadia's Hacking
Truths website was judged "second best hacking site" by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, though no ranked list of "hacking sites" has
been published by the FBI
2.)
In 2000, Chennai Online reported that Fadia's consulting clients
included several of the largest technology and financial services
companies in the world. No other source corroborates that report; were
it true, Fadia's client list would exceed that of many of the largest
independent security consultancies. The same article reported Fadia's
involvement in decrypting a message from an Al Qaeda operative; no other
source corroborates that claim, nor does any of Fadia's published work
involve cryptography or cryptanalysis.
3.) In April 2000, Rediff.com published an interview
with Ankit Fadia. Anti-India Crew (AIC), a Pakistani hacker group noted
for defacing Indian Government websites, rubbished the claims that
Fadia had made in the interview. Fadia had claimed that his alert to a
U.S. spy agency had prevented an attack by Pakistani hackers. However,
he never divulged the name of the agency, citing security reasons. AIC
and another Pakistani hacker group WFD defaced an Indian Government
site, epfindia.gov.in, and "dedicated" it to Fadia in mock deference to
his capabilities to hack or prevent hacking. AIC
also said that it would be defacing the website of the Central Board
of Excise and Customs (CBEC), www.cbec.gov.in, within two days and
challenged Fadia to prevent the attack by patching the vulnerable
website. AIC maintained that Fadia should stop calling himself a hacker,
if it succeeded in hacking the CBEC website.
AIC kept its promise and defaced the CBEC website after two days. At
another defaced website (bhelhyd.co.in), AIC termed the claims of Indian
media about Ankit Fadia as "Bullshit".
4.) He
has been accused of copying materials from internet and paraphrasing
into his own books and lectures. Recently, his claims have been proved
false and he has been cited as fake person boastering in his own
imaginations of fancy hacking for gaining cheap publicity.
5.) Fadia's
earlier site, Ankitfadia.com, was attacked in 2003, by a cracker who
self-identified as SkriptKiddie. Fadia explained that he was using a
private web server for hosting his website and they were responsible
for the lack of security. However, all web servers give their customers
an option to build their own security installing their own
(customer's) software and patches when they opt for private servers.
In
December 2009 Fadia's business site, hackingmobilephones.com was
hacked by a spammer promoting pharmaceutical products for erectile
dysfunction. Fadia again "claimed it had happened because of a fault in
the server that hosts his site." "The problem lies in the server and
all the sites hosted by it have been infected.