1. Koushik Dutta
Education: Attended Michigan State University
Famed For: Clockworkmod Recovery and ROM manager for Android Rooting.
2. Vivek Ramachandran
Education: Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication from IIT-Guwahati.
Famed For: Making to the Top 10 of the Microsoft Shootout Competition, Founder of the Caffe Latte Attack.
3. NULL Security Community
Education: N/A
Famed For: Being one of the most active open-source Indian hacking community.
4. Indian Honeynet Project
Education: N/A
Famed For: Work toward developing an Open source tool to counter brute force attacks via Wi-Fi
5. Hari Prasad
Accomplishments: Winner of the EFF Pioneer award.
Famed For: Finding loopholes in the Electronic Voting Machines.
6. Jayanth Krishnamurthy
Education: PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University.
Famed For: Designing the MD6 algorithm.
7. Pranav Mistry
Education: Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at MIT Media Lab, Masters of Design from IIT Bombay, Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from NIRMA Ahmadabad.
More:
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