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Hacking wizard awaits school punishment
By Li Qian |
December 28, 2012, Friday
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A computer wizard in a reputable university in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province may be punished for his talent because he flaunted on a social networking website how he hacked the school's email account and found the final exam papers.
Liu Jingkang, a Nanjing University student, became a celebrity after he decoded the phone number of Zhou Hongyi, chairman of Qihoo 360, China's biggest online security service provider, within two seconds simply by hearing the keypad tone.
Li Kaifu, former Google China president and now CEO of Innovation Works, was impressed by his talent and invited him to join his company.
But the 21-year-old is in a big trouble after he bragged two days ago on renren.com that he succeeded to hack into the dean's email account, the Yangtze Evening News reported today.
In his post, Liu said he found out that teachers sent the electronic exam sheets to the dean by email, so he sent an email as well to get a reply and a session cookie – a unique string that contains the path of automatic login generated when a user logs in his account. He then used the stolen cookie to log into the dean's account without providing username and password.
"I searched 13 exam sheets but I didn't click any one," Liu said, adding that he just found the bug and wanted to test it.
His post was widely circulated on the Internet and many students asked him to teach them. But he deleted it on Thursday morning at the order of his instructor. His father also received a call from the school, saying his son might be expelled, the paper reported.
But the school told the newspaper that it hasn't decided how to punish the student.
Liu Jingkang, a Nanjing University student, became a celebrity after he decoded the phone number of Zhou Hongyi, chairman of Qihoo 360, China's biggest online security service provider, within two seconds simply by hearing the keypad tone.
Li Kaifu, former Google China president and now CEO of Innovation Works, was impressed by his talent and invited him to join his company.
But the 21-year-old is in a big trouble after he bragged two days ago on renren.com that he succeeded to hack into the dean's email account, the Yangtze Evening News reported today.
In his post, Liu said he found out that teachers sent the electronic exam sheets to the dean by email, so he sent an email as well to get a reply and a session cookie – a unique string that contains the path of automatic login generated when a user logs in his account. He then used the stolen cookie to log into the dean's account without providing username and password.
"I searched 13 exam sheets but I didn't click any one," Liu said, adding that he just found the bug and wanted to test it.
His post was widely circulated on the Internet and many students asked him to teach them. But he deleted it on Thursday morning at the order of his instructor. His father also received a call from the school, saying his son might be expelled, the paper reported.
But the school told the newspaper that it hasn't decided how to punish the student.
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