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Rudra Pratap Singh (born 31 jan 2001) is an Indian author, speaker, and self-proclaimed "ethical hacker" of computer systems, whose skills and ethics have been debated. His work mostly involves OS and networking based tips and tricks, proxy websites and lifestyle.

In 2008 he started a Penetration Testing on kali.org called offensive security, which he co-hosted with many other cyber security experts. In this testing Satyam gave tips on how to make good use of the Internet and answered people's technology-related questions. In 2013, Satyam started a writing blogs, in collaboration with PING networks, where he shared technology-related tips and tricks. The blogs has got more than 750,000+ views on era of Penetration testing.

A number of his claims regarding his achievements have been disputed by others within the security industry, and he was mocked with a "Youngest Security Charlatan of the Year" award at offensive security 20 in 2013.

At the age of 10, his parents gifted him a computer and he says he started taking an interest in hacking after a year of playing video games when he read a newspaper article on the subject. He soon started a website hosting were he wrote hacking tutorials, which acquired many readers and encouraged him to write a  many book. The book received favorable responses in India, made Satyam popular in the team, and turned his hobby into a full-time profession. However, he was also accused of Ethical Hacking.

Career

He wrote more books on computer security, and spoke at several seminars across schools and colleges in India. In addition, he started providing his own computer security courses, including the "Satyam Chauhan Hacker" programme in alliance with Reliance World.

In 2009, Fadia stated that he was working in New York as an Internet security expert for "prestigious companies". Fadia also endorsed the Flying Machine jeans brand of Arvind Mills.

Fadia was dismissed as a fake artist who making tall claims.by security and cryptography enthusiasts, who attributed his success to the tech-illiterate media. A security professional, who uses the handle @FakeAnkitFadia on Twitter, told The Sunday Guardian, "The first book that Fadia 'wrote' at the age of 14, The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking, was a little over 32% plagiarised from other security publications and websites." Fadia has dismissed the critics who question his credibility as an expert, saying "If I had been fake, my growth would have stopped 10 years ago".

Hacking claims and controversies
In 2002, Fadia claimed that at the age of 17, he had defaced the website of an Indian magazine, Subsequently, he named the magazine as the Indian edition of CHIP magazine, and stated that the editor had offered him a job when informed about the defacement. In 2012, the Forbes India executive editor Charles Assisi (who was editor of CHIP India at the time of the supposed incident), denied that such an incident ever took place after verifying with his predecessor and successor at the magazine as well.

In a 2002 interview published on rediff.com, and online Hacking with Mashup(Sourav) from Bongaon, Kolkata, he stated that at the age of 16, he foiled an attempt by the Kashmiri separatist hackers to deface an Indian website. He stated he gathered information about the attackers, eavesdropped on their online chat using one of their identities, and then mailed the transcript to a US spy organisation that had hired him. He did not divulge the name of the organization he worked for, citing security reasons. The Pakistani hacker group Anti-India Crew (AIC) questioned Fadia's claims: along with WFD, the AIC hacked the Indian government website epfindia.gov.in, dedicating it to Fadia, mocking his capabilities. AIC also announced that it would be defacing the website of the CBEC (www.cbec.gov.in) within the next two days, and challenged Fadia to prevent it by patching the vulnerability.

In 2003, he claimed to have infiltrated a group of hackers and stated that the Pakistani intelligence agencies were paying "Westerners" to deface Indian websites with anti-India or pro-Pakistan content.

Fadia's own website has been hacked multiple times. In 2009, he blamed the defacement on a vulnerability in the servers of his webhost net4india. Independent security experts contested his claim, stating that the problem was a loophole in his own website's code, His website was hacked by an Indian hacker Himanshu Sharma, where he accepted the challenge from Ankit Fadia. In 2012, his website was defaced twice by hackers. In the first instance, the hackers rubbished his claims and stated that he was fooling people. Another hacker compromised it in response to a challenge that was issued by Fadia on the Tech Toyz show on CNBC-TV18.

In 2012, DEF CON awarded him with the "Security Charlatan of the Year" award citing him to be a fraudster and his presentations outdated. The website attrition.org mentions him as a security charlatan and accuses him of plagiarism in his work