Updated: Student expelled for hacking Quebec college system gets job offers
By The Canadian Press - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 0 Comments
MONTREAL – Most students don’t see any silver linings when they get expelled from…
MONTREAL – Most students don’t see any silver linings when they get expelled from school. Ahmed Al-Khabaz isn’t one of them.
He’s getting job offers from computer software companies — including one whose security flaw he found while rooting around in Dawson College’s system.
“I think I’ll move on,” Al-Khabaz said Tuesday, adding he enjoyed attending Dawson College until he was kicked out in November.
“I’ll take one of those job offers I’ve got and I’ll apply to another English (junior college) in September.”
Al-Khabaz says he has been offered employment by the president of Skytech Communications, which provides the software for Dawson’s system. Another 10 or so offers are also on the table.
A Skytech spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
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Hackers plan to take down Sony websites this weekend
By macleans.ca - Friday, May 6, 2011 at 1:21 PM - 3 Comments
Alleged plan involves publicizing user names, addresses and credit card info
Hackers say they’re planning a third “major” attack against Sony websites, according to tech news site CNET report. The allegation comes from an observer of a chat channel used by hackers, who noticed discussion of a plan to break into Sony’s website for a third time this weekend. The alleged plan involves publicizing some or all of the user information hackers will manage to steal, which could include customers’ names, addresses and credit card numbers. Sony has already suffered two successful breaches in mid April that compromised data for more than 100 million accounts, and forced it to temporarily shut down PSN, Qriocity, and Sony Online. The attacks triggered investigations by the FBI and Congress, among others, and authorities in the U.K., Canada, and Taiwan. The latest revelation from CNET seems to suggest the hacker group Anonymous, initially indicated by Sony as the most likely culprit, might not be behind the cyber war against the company. Anonymous has denied any involvement.
