Edward Snowden sharpened his hacking skills in New Delhi

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By Shilpa Phadnis
The Times of India
December 4, 2013

BANGALORE -- The hacker who shook the US intelligence machinery and had 
world leaders railing against Washington for spying on them picked up 
crucial skills in India. Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency 
contractor-turned-whistleblower, spent a week in New Delhi training in 
core Java programming and advanced ethical hacking. It’s this training 
that got him certified as an EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA).

Now hiding in Russia as a fugitive from US law and charged with espionage 
for leaking documents related to the US surveillance, Snowden trained at 
offshore IT training and certification provider Koenig Solutions in Moti 
Nagar, New Delhi in 2010. He flew into India on September 3 from Japan and 
left for the US on September 9.

The Registration of Foreigners Rule 1939 Form C Hotel Arrival report, a 
copy of which is with TOI, shows Snowden checked into Koenig Inn run by 
the institute in Karol Bagh at 2.30pm on September 3. “He paid over $2,000 
towards his training fee, lodging and boarding,” said Rohit Aggarwal, 
founder and CEO of Koenig Solutions. Koenig is an authorized training 
partner for certification programmes from companies like Microsoft, Cisco, 
Oracle, EC-Council, Citrix and VMware. It has trained over 20,000 foreign 
IT professionals across five centres in the country and one in Dubai.

ECSA is a 4-day course designed to train security professionals in 
advanced tools and techniques required to perform comprehensive 
information security tests. It enables students to design, secure and test 
networks to protect firms from threats that hackers and crackers pose. “To 
beat a hacker, you need to think like one!” says the EC-Council website.

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