World’s Biggest Hacker – A Challenge to the Financial, Technology and Corporate Sector Security

Ahmedabad, Gujarat (PRWeb) March 18, 2007 — Born in small village of most famous Indian city known as Pink City of India. Mr. Sharma is in the field of security research from last 8 years. He has now full control over the global web security system. His life was full of struggle and overloaded stress. He mentions his strength and pride by specifying himself as a Full-stop on E-system. His aim was to perform unique tasks across globe, something which no one other then him can perform. He proved this through a LIVE ON AIR telecast on one of the most reputed news channel INDIA TV (http://www.indiatvnews.com). This telecast was aired in the Breaking News on INDIA TV and was the world’s first longest hacking and security related news telecast. This telecast was shown from 9:00 PM to 12:30 AM and is one of the best serialized news programme of India. Minister of Information Technology, Technical Experts, Stock Exchange Experts, Cyber Crime Experts, Indian Star Editors Team and Corporate Profiles were all present during this telecast. Mr. Sharma had hacked several Internet Banking, Internet Trading and Internet Shopping websites all in a single attempt. Recently, Mr. Sharma had also announced about his new security firm Shubhlabh Technologies. He mentions hacking as an expert level work which is technical art of finding vulnerabilities in existing weak security of any online activity through Internet. Kalpesh Sharma, shows the LIVE demonstration on net banking and its loopholes. He proved that no bank is safe for your money. He challenged to all banks that he can hack any bank site because of their loopholes. However, his intention behind proving was to help out peoples become safe and aware of technical security.

First he reserved an airticket on indiatimes.com shopping website for free. The payment was done by hacking the site of IDBI Bank payment gateway. Secondly, he purchased a raincoat from rediff shopping website and payment was done through hacking of Federal Bank. From both websites he received the receipt with order number and confirmed payment that the payment is done and we will deliver it within 3 days…

Alongwith, Mr. Sharma also went for discussion through a debate in the same LIVE telecast with Mr. Dhrender Kumar (Stock Exchange Expert) and Pawan Duggal (Cyber Law Expert) and they felt shocked when they saw all these right in front of their eyes. Mr. Dhrender said that, ” I am shocked to see this situation. Now our money is not safe and we could not take physical risk to keep huge amount of funds with us, because technical era is on it’s way towards progress. In order to avoid this we are using Net Banking, but as seen there are several vulnerabilities in banking system also… “

Mr Pawan Duggal described about some clauses and sections of Information Security Act, and asked peoples who lost their money, can claim up to 10 Million INR. But you have to prove it in the court of law, which is almost very difficult to perform. You can’t get help from consumer court as well, in this situation. No one knows what can be done? Mr. Sharma also hacked the so called safe website of shares and securities trading i.e Indiabulls.com and transferred 100 INR into his Union Bank Savings Account. Indiabulls database site reflected the balance fluctuations, immediately. For discussion on this, Mr Gagan Banga (President of Indiabulls) was called in this LIVE telecast. But instead of accepting his company’s technical mistakes, he challenged against Mr. Sharma’s claims. He fully denied though everything was seen by millions of peoples across nation. He said that, ” It’s not possible to hack our trading website”. Then, Mr. Sharma challenged him to prove it right in that running LIVE telecast, and asked him for oral permissions. Mr. Sharma also added that let public viewers of this telecast give their decisions after he demonstrates it right now. Once Mr. Gagan felt nervous ! because by this they can loose the confidence of people. But at last he accepted that challenge and told to Mr. Sharma that he can come in his office and hack Mr. Gagan’s account. I will give you permission to hack my account, but I can’t give permissions for other hacking other’s accounts. This shows Mr. Gagan have doubt about his website and was afraid of Mr. Sharma’s Challenge.

For further discussion Mr. Shakeel Ahmed (IT Minister of India) came and he told that he is not a technical person, but he will definitely do well for people’s of his country with his technical team… In short, none of our money is safe until and unless, online security vulnerabilities are not removed completely. In order to know more about Mr. Sharma’s research activities and services please go through [http://kalpeshsharma.page.tl]

The Challenge of Strategic Planning – Are You Ready?

You may have decided that your company needs a comprehensive, formal strategic plan, but are you really ready for the challenge? Just as important as your willingness to plan is your commitment to expend the resources (time, creative energy and money) required to do it right. Proper planning always involves significant resources for implementation. You and your management team should be committed to following through before you commit any time to the first planning meeting.

A recent article by Kerry Capell at BusinessWeek, How Britain Jumpstarts Design (October 3, 2007), describes the government-sponsored process for helping small to mid-sized businesses re-energize their companies through innovative design. The author relates several different case studies in which a company identifies, with some outside help from Britain’s Design Council, ways to renew its products or make its company brand stand out from the crowd. There have been several brilliant and very profitable success stories from the program.

One interesting thing about the process is that the support of the Design Council is not simply a government giveaway. It is quite competitive to qualify for the program. All company applications to the program are reviewed by a panel of experts. No company is allowed in the program unless they have both the willingness and the ability to invest significant resources in product or process design. In short, the Council does not want to waste its resources helping the business with their design planning activities unless the management team and ownership can demonstrate beforehand that they will be able to follow-through with the good ideas that come out of the process.

This same philosophy should also apply to your thinking when you consider launching your strategic planning process. A comprehensive business planning process is bound to help your team develop many new ideas that will help you change your organization for the better. Implementation of these ideas will require management time and creativity (at the very least) and, in most cases, capital resources as well.

It is relatively easy to kick off strategic planning with the intellectually enjoyable discussions about markets, customers, competitors, capabilities, etc. In most cases, it is fun and exciting to begin the journey to examine your business with the tools of a good strategic planning process. It can be very costly if you are not willing to finish the journey with the resources necessary to achieve your strategic vision.

One of my clients learned this lesson the hard way. After completing the first two phases of Simplified Strategic Planning (Business Analysis and Strategy Formulation), the management team believed that their products and services were game-changing entries in the market. They all agreed that they could potentially triple the size of the business in the next 2 years. It was clear that the chosen business building activities required capital. At the beginning of phase three, Implementation Planning, the fiscally conservative owner announced to the team that he would entertain neither significant debt nor ownership sharing as a means to implementing their action plans. All growth would be self-financed from available cash flow. It was clear to all team members that their aggressive plans for growth would be starved for resources and would take at least twice as long to achieve. This so disheartened the management team that two very talented members left the company within the next six months — a huge loss in executive experience and industry knowledge!

This is just one example of the potential negative impact caused by lack of commitment for strategic planning follow-through. There are many other stories of companies that crafted great strategy and then suffered from inadequate support of their plans. Before initiating your strategic planning efforts, be sure that you have the resources and the determination to implement your great ideas.

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