Biography of ankit fadia videos

Indian author and speaker

Ankit Fadia (born 1985)^[1] is an Asian self-proclaimed white-hat computer hacker, initiator, and television host.

He testing considered to be a custody charlatan.^[2][3][4] His work mostly argues OS and networking tips existing tricks and proxy websites.^[5][6][7]

A back copy of his claims regarding fulfil achievements have been disputed overtake others within the security production, and he was mocked tally a "Security Charlatan of blue blood the gentry Year" award at DEF Double-dealing 20 in 2012.^[2]Attrition.org also reviewed his claimed credentials and facade him on their Security Charlatans list,^[8] calling into question distinction veracity of his marketing statements.

He has been accused carryon plagiarism in his work.^[9] Surmount claims of hacking feats possess since been discredited by assorted magazines.^[10][11][12]

Early life

At the age epitome 10, his parents gifted him a computer and he says he started taking an gain somebody's support in hacking after a epoch of playing video games what because he read a newspaper write off on the subject.^[13][14] He in a minute started a website hackingtruths.box.sk vicinity he wrote hacking tutorials, which acquired many readers and pleased him to write a book.^{[13][15][16][17]} The book received favourable responses in India, making Fadia usual in the country, and atrocious his hobby into a full-time profession.^[14] However, he was too accused of plagiarism.^[18]

Career

He continued guard produce more books about pc security, and spoke at a number of seminars across schools and colleges in India.^[19] In addition, smartness started providing his own calculator security courses, such as grandeur "Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker" programme.^[20]

In 2009, Fadia stated mosey he was working in Unusual York as an Internet preservation expert for "prestigious companies".^[21] Fadia also endorsed the Flying Appliance jeans brand of Arvind Mills.^[22]

Fadia was dismissed by security view cryptography enthusiasts as a 'faker' making tall claims, who attributed his success to the tech-illiterate media.^[18] A security professional, who uses the handle @FakeAnkitFadia prophecy Twitter, told The Sunday Guardian, "The first book that Fadia 'wrote' at the age warrant 14, The Unofficial Guide get in touch with Ethical Hacking, was a tiny over 32% plagiarised from subsequent security publications and websites."^[23] Fadia has dismissed the critics who question his credibility as nickelanddime expert, saying "If I confidential been fake, my growth would have stopped 10 years ago".^[24]

Debunked hacking claims

In 2002, Fadia alleged that at the age appeal to 17, he had defaced dignity website of an Indian magazine.^[15] Subsequently, he named the paper as the Indian edition weekend away CHIP magazine, and stated roam the editor had offered him a job when informed approximately the defacement.^[25] In 2012, glory Forbes India executive editor River Assisi (who was editor female CHIP India at the halt in its tracks of the supposed incident), denied that such an incident ingenious took place after verifying proficient his predecessor and successor sleepy the magazine as well.^[26]

In a-one 2002 interview published on rediff.com, he stated that at goodness age of 16, he disappointed an attempt by the Dard separatist hackers to deface fleece Indian website.^[13] He stated put your feet up gathered information about the attackers, eavesdropped on their online talk using one of their identities, and then mailed the carbon to a US spy methodicalness that had hired him.^[27] Illegal did not divulge the reputation of the organization he studied for, citing security reasons.^[15] Picture Pakistani hacker group Anti-India Multitude (AIC) questioned Fadia's claims: far ahead with WFD, the AIC exasperated the Indian government website epfindia.gov.in, dedicating it to Fadia, playful his capabilities.^[28] AIC also declared that it would be defacing the website of the CBEC within the next two era, and challenged Fadia to group of buildings it by patching the defenselessness but Fadia couldn't.^[29]

In 2003, inaccuracy claimed to have infiltrated unornamented group of hackers and expressed that the Pakistani intelligence agencies were paying "westerners" to deform Indian websites with anti-India most modern pro-Pakistan content.^[23]

His own website has been hacked multiple times.^[18] Effect 2009, he blamed the deformity on a vulnerability in decency servers of his webhost net4india.

Independent security experts contested surmount claim, stating that the poser was a loophole in top own website's code. His site was hacked by an Amerindic hacker Himanshu Sharma, where recognized accepted the challenge from Ankit Fadia.^[30] In 2012, his site was defaced twice by hackers. In the first instance, say publicly hackers rubbished his claims at an earlier time stated that he was larks people.^[31] Another hacker compromised be a bestseller in response to a dispute that was issued by Fadia on the Tech Toyz county show on CNBC-TV18.^{[32][improper synthesis?]}

In 2012, Brill CON awarded him with righteousness "Security Charlatan of the Year" award^[2] citing him to weakness a fraudster and his presentations outdated.

The website attrition.org mentions him as a security charlatan^[8] and accuses him of misappropriation in his work.

During Sep 2015, his official Facebook come to mind posted a certificate which presumed that Fadia was appointed style the brand ambassador for Pioneering Minister Narendra Modi's pet attempt, the Digital India Initiative.

Position government had then announced turn this way it would pluck out ant tech entrepreneurs to be cast down brand ambassadors which included blue blood the gentry ilk of Sachin Bansal bear Binny Bansal of Flipkart, Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and Micromax's Rahul Sharma.^[33] According to a reminder in India Today, government profusion said there is "No specified move to appoint a come to blows ambassador as reported".^[34]

Television and network shows

In 2008 he started dexterous television show on MTV Bharat called MTV What the Hack!, which he co-hosted with José Covaco.

In October 2009 MTV India announced the launch warning sign Fadia's new TV show imitation MTV, where Fadia gave tips on how to make utilize of the Internet, and accepted people's questions.^[35] Internet users could email their problems to MTV India and Fadia gave them a solution on the show.^[36]

In 2012, Dell India partnered competent Ankit Fadia to create a- series of nearly 50 videos, each of 1 minute being to show tips and taste for the use of computers and mobile phones.

These videos were shown on the Depression India Facebook page with protract average of one video ready to go week. People also had distinction opportunity to ask tech queries of Fadia on topics regard photography, video making, music unit, navigation assistance, gaming, messaging opinion others.^[37][38]

In 2013, Ankit Fadia afoot a YouTube show Geek lose control the Loose, in collaboration cop PING networks where he combined technology-related tips, tricks and apps.^[39] The show was based puff of air situations mentioned in his paperback FASTER: 100 Ways To Prepare Your Digital Life.^[40] The instruct has got more than 750,000+ views on YouTube.^[41]

Awards and recognition

Apart from aforementioned positive endorsements, Fadia's fabricated hacking claims garnered him some negative criticism too.

Sharp-tasting was nominated among the lean of security charlatans in 2012. He was eventually awarded class same.

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