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Stories by Sai Krishna Kothapalli on Medium
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How the Personal Data of India’s Richest Could Have Been Leaked!
The story of how Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Virat Kohli, Shah Rukh Khan and lakhs of other rich and influential people’s personal data was available to anyone because of a vulnerability in a Government portal. Last year (Jan 2023) Sankranthi I was in my hometown celebrating the festival with my family. I had some free time and was working on a proof of concept for a security tool…
How I Could Leak Personal Phone Numbers of All Registered Indian Voters
Can result in large-scale election-related scams in India. Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash It’s just two days until the elections in your hometown. You’re coming back from work in your car. There’s a red light up ahead, so you’re scrolling through your phone. Tired of all the promotional “vote for us” videos on YouTube, you check Twitter instead. You’re happily scrolling through when you…
How I Could Send Any Text Message From Indian Government IDs
Sometimes, you don’t necessarily need to hack a system to exploit it. Image from lishakov on Unsplash (Edited by the author on Canva ) If you received a message from “IWTXT” asking you to pay some money, would you believe it? No, right? What if you live in Andhra Pradesh, and that message came from “APGOVT” and requested the same? That you’re eligible for some scheme and immediately got a call…
How Screwed is Indian Healthcare Data?
The story behind how I was able to view, edit & delete classified personal information of lakhs of patients all over India Image Source Some months ago, I read an interesting article on Techcrunch titled “ A billion medical images are exposed online ” about medical imaging storage servers that are not configured securely and are exposed online. This caught my attention, and I wanted to dig deeper,…
Is Indian Atomic Research Targeted by Hackers?
Proof That Indian Atomic Research Targeted by Hackers? The shocking truth revealed by the analysis of several data breaches online https://www.thequint.com/news/india/ministry-of-external-affairs-isro-barc-breached-thousands-government-mails-cybersecurity Introduction Since the past 4–5 years, there has been a dramatic rise in the data breaches occurring worldwide. One would have been familiar…
Nullcon CTF HackIM - Crypto 2FUN Writeup
Nullcon CTF 2019 CTFs- Capture the Flags are a great way to challenge yourself. It had been more than a year since I actively participated in them. This time around, I convinced my friend Midhul Varma to join me for the Nullcon CTF . He and I make a great team and we used to participate in CTFs together earlier. Right after the CTF started, we took a look at the web and pwn challenges and…
The ultimate Arch Linux installation guide
First of all if you are reading this, it means you are one of the curious few who wanted to try Arch Linux. Kudos for that. I am assuming you already know about Arch Linux so I am not going into the nittie-gritties of it. I am here to make sure that you do not face any glitches in your Arch Linux installation process. In case you face any issues, I’ll let you know the smoothest way to resolve…
From Microsoft “Build the Shield” to Microsoft “Hall of Fame”
This post is going to be about how I got started in hacking (thanks to Microsoft) and with time, how I was able to help them back by reporting some security vulnerabilities in their web applications. The story started in my second year. I was a complete newbie — looking up tutorials on YouTube and calling myself a hacker. Hell, I couldn’t even dual boot a PC properly. Back in school, I wasn’t very…
The Full Story Of The 2018 BSNL India Hack
Business Today News link This post is going to be about the BSNL hack which was just recently widely covered in the news. It tries to portray the entire story instead of the bits and pieces reported by the Media. On 20th February 2016, when I was in my 3rd year of engineering at IIT Guwahati, I was preparing for a hacking competition when a friend and I came across a vulnerability in the BSNL…