From first report to MVR: Harun’s path in cloud security research

Harun’s relationship with technology began early, driven by curiosity rather than obligation. While still in high school, he taught himself Pascal and C simply because he wanted to understand how things worked. Those languages never became central to his professional career, but they shaped how h...

School’s AI system mistakes a bag of chips for a gun

An artificial intelligence AI detection system at Kenwood High School mistakenly flagged a student’s bag of potato chips as a gun, triggering a police response. The 16-year-old had finished eating a bag of Doritos and crumpled it up in his pocket when he was done. But the school’s AI-based gun...

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device...

centennialhighschool.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3918023

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

upweyhs.vic.edu.au Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3870047

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

sangerhigh.sanger.k12.ca.us Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3766621

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

library.sangerhigh.sanger.k12.ca.us Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3766620

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Hacking the High School Grading System

Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system. Whats not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for low-performing students to fail--they have a grading floor under them, they know it, and that allows them...

cardozohigh.enschool.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3729190

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Re-air: What teenagers face growing up online: Lock and Code S04E19

This week on the Lock and Code podcast... In 2022, Malwarebytes investigated the blurry, shifting idea of "identity" on the internet, and how online identities are not only shaped by the people behind them, but also inherited by the internets youngest users, children. Children have always inherit...

highschool-usa.net Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3511023

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

wilsonhs.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3491650

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

miamikillianhs.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3461715

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

High-School Graduation Prank Hack

This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools. During the process, the group broke into the school’s IT systems; repurposed software used to monitor students’ computers;...

Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll

As a graduation prank, four high school students hijacked 500 screens across six school buildings to troll their classmates and teachers...

raleighcharterhs.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2617376

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

How a senior product manager is leading the passwordless movement at Microsoft

May 5, 2022, is World Password Day, a day we all use to create awareness around password security. At Microsoft, we choose to celebrate replacing passwords with better and more secure ways to sign in. I can’t think of a better person at Microsoft to represent this journey than Libby Brown, a seni...

highschoolcalculator.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2493170

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

High school student rickrolls entire school district, and gets praised

A student at a high school in Cook County successfully hacked into the Internet-of-Things IoT devices of one of the largest school districts in Illinois, and gave everyone a surprise. Minh aka @WhiteHoodHacker on Twitter who attends Elk Grove—a name that curiously resembles the home town of...

About the security content of iTunes U 3.8.3

About the security content of iTunes U 3.8.3 This document describes the security content of iTunes U 3.8.3. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are...