After Investigating Cyber Security Gap, Student Expelled
A college student in Canada has been expelled after he investigated a security vulnerability in a computer system that could have exposed the personal data of more than 250,000 students, according to an article from Wired.
Last November, Dawson College in Montreal expelled computer science student Hamed Al-Khabaz after he exposed a weakness in Omnivox, a system provided by Skytech Communications to numerous college in that country for the management of student data, including social insurance numbers – the Canadian equivalent to Social Security numbers, Wired reports.