Monendra Sahu, Raipur's ethical hacker in Google's 'security hall of fame'

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/monendra-sahu-raipurs-ethical-hacker-in-googles-security-hall-of-fame/articleshow/24115217.cms

By Smita Mainkar
TNN
14 Oct, 2013

RAIPUR: He hacked some of the most secured internet networks existing on 
world wide web and got rewarded by his targets. Monendra Sahu, a young 
mining engineer from National Institute of Technology (NIT-Raipur) has the 
distinction of hacking websites of Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Blackberry, 
Yahoo and many others and is now listed in the " Security Hall of Fame".

Under the on-going Bug-bounty programme being run by various social 
networking sites, search engines and other websites, hackers are 
encouraged to look for security vulnerability of their websites. Ethical 
hackers such as Sahu are rewarded by enlisting them in the hall of fame. 
Google in its current quarter list has ranked this Raipurian on the 11th 
spot in world.

Sahu has been rewarded by some of these websites, which have paid him sums 
of $100 to $20000.

Advising caution to internet users, Sahu said, "There are websites which 
are highly vulnerable and can easily be hacked. I informed them about the 
loopholes in their security systems. After they verified my claims, they 
included me in the list."

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