[ISN] Is Ankit Fadia selling Viagra?

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/dec/081209-ankit-fadia-hacker-hacked.htm

By Shashank Shekhar 
MiD DAY
2009-12-08 	

Maybe not. But someone has hacked into India's most famous geek's 
website and linked it to another one promoting Viagra

It's a case of a protector turning a victim.

The cyber world is buzzing with the news that India's renowned cyber 
security guru Ankit Fadia's business website been hacked by spammers, 
who have linked it to a site promoting Viagra.

Though Fadia's website, http://www.hackingmobilephones.com/, doesn't 
have a visible connection with any outside portal, it has an invisible 
link to a website named http://www.uindy.edu/ and some other similar 
ones. These are related to advertising and promoting Viagra online. The 
hacker has not being detected yet.

When contacted, Fadia said he was aware of the problem but claimed it 
had happened because of a fault in the server that hosts his site.

"I don't own the server net4india that hosts my website. The server 
hosts various other sites too. The problem lies in the server and all 
the sites hosted by it have been infected. But my site is safe to use," 
said Fadia to MiD DAY.

However, cyber crime experts contest Fadia's claims. They say his site 
has a coding problem which is indirectly promoting a page selling 
Viagra.

Sunny Vaghela, a cyber crime expert from Gujarat, said, "This is a web 
application problem and the error lies in the coding of the website not 
the server. Seeing the Google cache it's clear that Fadia's site is 
under attack. It is really shocking because he claims to secure other 
websites."

Another web security analyst from Gurgaon, Himanshu Tiwari, said, "The 
problem is not in the server. The website has a loophole. Every visitor 
to his website is indirectly promoting the Viagra page. In simple words, 
every hit on Fadia's site is being recorded in the other site too, 
making it popular. This is not a small problem as it could be used to 
send spoof email from the IP address of Fadia's website."

Ankit Fadia's website had been hacked earlier as well and that time too 
the geek had blamed the server.


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