URUGUAY, KalderaNews.com – A 17-year-old high school student from Uruguay who taught himself computer programming was awarded $10,000 from Google for discovering a security bug.
Ezequiel Pereira of Montevido, discovered the bug last month during a break from school.
“I was really bored at home, during my winter vacation,” Pereira, who blogged about his discovery, told ABC News by email. “And luckily that day I had the idea to do the trial and error that led to the discover.”
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The security bug Pereira discovered was in Google’s AppEngine server. He was able to find a point of access to part of internal Google infrastructure related to AppEngine — the dashboard for the company’s technology support team, for example — without being authenticated.
“We had seen something similar before and we fixed it but he found a part that hadn’t fixed it correctly,” Eduardo Vela, Google’s Vulnerability Rewards Program Technical Lead, told ABC News. “He was looking in the right place at the right time.”
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