[ISN] Cybersecurity a sham in India: Ethical hacker

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 03:05:28 -0600 (CST)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Cybersecurity-a-sham-in-India-Ethical-hacker/articleshow/7432529.cms

[Seems Ankit Fadia is confused what the term 'Ethical Hacker' really means, 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Ankit-Fadia-wows-students-with-hack-demo-at-IIT-Patna-fest/articleshow/7432187.cms
If you do a demo hacking two companies websites and teaching a crowd how to 
remove your name from the phone company billing list doesn't sound the least 
bit ethical to me.  - WK]


By Pranava K Chaudhary
TNN
Feb 5, 2011

PATNA: India may be IT capital of the world, but it is lagging far 
behind other countries in cybersecurity, said Ankit Fadia, a renowned 
ethical hacker here.

"Not only are Internet users – individuals, companies and governments - 
unaware of various risks of cybercrime and fraud, the law enforcing 
agencies are ill-equipped and ill-trained to tackle them," the 
24-year-old Fadia said, who was here to give lecture at an IIT-Patna 
fest.

"With high growth in computer users and networks, the scale and 
sophistication of cybercrimes have increased," he said.
An independent computer security and digital intelligence consultant, 
Fadia has authored 14 internationally best-selling books on topics 
related to computersecurity.

Talking to TOI about ethical hacking, he said: "The job of an ethical 
hacker is to get into the minds of computer criminals, think like them 
and come up with innovative methods to protect computers, networks and 
data."

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