Three CS students won the 2009 Amdocs excellent project prize in computer science. In their project, called "Badsense - Using Google Advertising Mechanism as a Hacking Tool", Ohad Lutzky, Guy Treger and Tom Meiry managed to break through to websites using the "Adsense" - Google advertisement system - as a mediator, and so proved that hackers might do the same for bad purposes, without being identified.

More details in the following "The Marker" article from September 24, 2009. [Back to the news index]