HackVidhi - Story of Inception

A warm midnight of October this year, myself and Archana bumped into a discussion of how her random attempt of placing an order online for a commodity (and not actually completing the order) resulted in a successful order notification and she was left with an order placed worth Rs 17,000 of a commodity that she neither intended to buy nor had she paid for it!!

I have once placed an order that I wanted to modify later and was left with no other way of editing my order but to write to customer care using their “Post us” form. Not to say the perplexed I was heartlessly filling the form rapidly thinking over what I could post in this form to inform them about an alteration I needed to make in my order.  When I was done with posting my query I started thinking if there was a different brain thinking ‘what all’ could be posted on this form rather than just what could be posted on such forms.

There are spams floating all around offering products that mislead the consumers to online frauds.

These represent a much larger gamut of such experiences in an online customer’s day to day life that makes him rethink over the fidelity of online endeavors and the fatality of them if precautions are overruled. For all we know in an online world the thick layer of underlying security vulnerabilities exposed by high traffic web applications and numerous bare loopholes make a great motivation for a series of malicious brains making their way into the world of tremendous possibilities termed as hacking.

The question comes, are today’s online businesses have enough investment awareness to protect their systems from potential attacks or the red carpet laid to welcome their customers are eventually trafficking the hackers.

The mere thought process took us through a joy ride of much interesting discussion on how we can explore these possibilities and help online business hear the Ninja's nocks on their doors!

Result of our discussion was Hackvidhi - a simple and thoughtful initiative to provide quality assurance services for the magnitude of security vulnerabilities unleashed by millions of dollars worth insecure information travelling through trapped tunnels.

At HackVidhi and in this blog we will continually talk about

-          Most common Web App Security threats

-          Current Hacking trends and Math of Security Risks

-          Dynamics of site exposures and Threat Modeling

-          Preventive measures and our offerings

-          Penetration Testing : Raising the bars

-          Specialized service for Web Application Security

Look for our upcoming posts on Web Application Security hazards, making your Web App your secure home, Keys to your own doors of Assured and Secured success and a lot more.