Indian Grad at Cornell Challenges Country's Cyber Security, Hacks ICSE Results

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 07 June 2013, 00:42 IST
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Gerry Arathoon, chairperson of the CISCE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations) refused to comment on the incident. "I can't say anything until I have had a look at things myself," he said.

According to Pranesh Prakash, policy director at the Center for Internet and Society, "You don't need real technical skills to do this. You just need to figure out the ranges and feed them in. It is an interesting revelation that the website does nothing to obfuscate the javascript for security, but one can still retrieve data without that information. Once you have the data, it requires two minutes of programming to get it in a spreadsheet’’, as reported by Arora of TNN.

The Indian education system has been witnessing a rapid growth over the last many years and the adoption of technology to publish exam results online proved to be really helpful to students. But, now the credibility of the system is a big question mark.

Das, who did his schooling form Kolkata, currently works as an intern at Google .He is quite interested in game and applet design and is working on a tongue-controlled game.