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Monday, November 23, 2009
![CS Students Exposed Security Loophole to Websites
CS Students Exposed Security Loophole to Websites](/images/news/2009/329/preview.jpg)
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.
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