{"id":916,"date":"2013-01-21T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=916"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:25:10","slug":"dawson-college-student-expelled-for-vulnerability-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Dawson College student expelled for vulnerability scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Student Ahmed Al-Khabaz has been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2013\/01\/20\/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expelled<\/a> from Montreal\u2019s Dawson College for exploiting a flaw in Omnivox which is part of CEGEPs (General and Vocation<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Dawson College\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weblo.com\/asset_images\/large\/Dawson_College_45198dd59fa4c.gif\" width=\"259\" height=\"104\" \/>al Colleges) a shared system of Quebec colleges. The exploit potentially could exploit over 250,000 students\u2019 personal information. Mr. Al-Khabaz and colleague Ovidiu Mija initially reported the flaw to Director of Information Services and Technology Fran\u00e7ois Paradis who congratulated them but two days later Mr. Al-Khabaz ran Acunetix, a website vulnerabilities scanner, &#8220;to ensure that the issues he and Mija had identified had been corrected.&#8221; At this point, administration of Dawson College felt this was a cyber attack on their administrative systems and expelled Mr. Al-Khabaz for a \u201cserious professional conduct issue.\u201d]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,63,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaches","category-education","category-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8054,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}