RE: Indian hacker turns cyber cop

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: "Huggins, Michael" <mhhuggins () firstcommand com>

We hire someone who would probably never ever pass a background
investigation to work with the military and yet won't utilize our own
patriotic professionals whats up???

Michael H. Huggins
CISSP CTOC USN (ret)
First Command Information
Security Manager
817 569 2435


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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 3:58 AM
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Subject: [ISN] Indian hacker turns cyber cop


http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1934000/1934874.stm

[Is the U.S. Govt that hard up for consultants that its hiring 
16 year old former defacers to work as intelligence consultants 
in information security?  - WK]


By Brajesh Upadhyay 
of the BBC Hindi service 
17 April, 2002

The clock had just struck midnight when users logged onto a popular chat
site noticed a rather short message flashing up on their
monitors: "DOS attack".

To the majority, it may not have meant much, but to 16-year-old Ankit Fadia
sitting in front of his PC in the Indian capital Delhi it was a "Denial of
Service" attack - someone somewhere was trying to hack into a website.

Within seconds, he had managed to track the location of the sender - from
somewhere in Pakistan. Minutes later he had also found the target of attack
- the website of a top Indian firm.

They were soon alerted and a major hack was averted.

Early start

Ankit Fadia is one of the many "ethical hackers" now employed by businesses
all over the world to protect against such attacks.

"It was my first anti-hacking operation and it was successful," says Ankit,
who was only 10 days into a job as an intelligence consultant with a US
Government agency when he saved this website.

He refuses to divulge the name of the agency he is employed by or the firm
whose website he saved for security reasons.

[...]




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