This is just unbelievable. A Dawson College student got expelled after discovering a hole in the school's software that would have allowed anyone easy access to information on other students. I mean... wow.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...ed-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/
Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a 20-year-old computer science student at Dawson and a member of the school’s software development club, was working on a mobile app to allow students easier access to their college account when he and a colleague discovered what he describes as “sloppy coding” in the widely used Omnivox software which would allow “anyone with a basic knowledge of computers to gain access to the personal information of any student in the system, including social insurance number, home address and phone number, class schedule, basically all the information the college has on a student.”
And thus expelled and told to never talk about it. Is this the kind of publicity you wanted, Dawson?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...ed-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/
Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a 20-year-old computer science student at Dawson and a member of the school’s software development club, was working on a mobile app to allow students easier access to their college account when he and a colleague discovered what he describes as “sloppy coding” in the widely used Omnivox software which would allow “anyone with a basic knowledge of computers to gain access to the personal information of any student in the system, including social insurance number, home address and phone number, class schedule, basically all the information the college has on a student.”
And thus expelled and told to never talk about it. Is this the kind of publicity you wanted, Dawson?
