High school hacker expelled for changing marks

July 29, 2011/Terry Cutler/Comments Off on High school hacker expelled for changing marks
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High school hacker expelled for changing marksMONTREAL — A student who figured out a way to hike marks for himself and his friends has been unmasked at Beurling Academy in Verdun.

The young man entered his teacher’s computer network and helped himself to some higher numbers. If you were his friend, he might have raised your mark and if you were his not his friend, your marks went down.

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Terry Cutler

I’m Terry Cutler, the creator of Internet Safety University, an educational system helping to defend corporations and individuals against growing cyber threats. I’m a federal government-cleared cybersecurity expert (a Certified Ethical Hacker), and the founder of Cyology Labs, a first-line security defence firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada. In 2020, I wrote a bestselling book about the secrets of internet safety from the viewpoint of an ethical hacker. I’m a frequent contributor to National & Global media coverage about cyber-crime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and social network dangers families and individuals face daily.