Programmer from Kazan saved from breaking service YouTube – BBC Russian

• April 3, 2015

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security breach could cause popular Internet services much trouble

Camille Hismatullin, 22-year-old computer programmer from Kazan, 7 hours found a way to remove the clips in the video sharing YouTube.

He found a vulnerability, participating in Google to find weaknesses in the services of this company.

Hismatullin resisted the temptation to remove the clips from the host Justin Bieber and reported to Google’s found a security breach.

The company’s specialists have eliminated the problem, and the programmer from Kazan received an award.

Bieber was hurt

Camille Hismatullin discovered vulnerability video hosting YouTube, using which he could remove any movie. Instead, the programmer reported to Google about his discovery.

Thanks to the programmer from Kazan Justin Bieber videos are still available on YouTube

Hismattullin participated in the program Vulnerability Research Grant, in which volunteer experts test the safety of services Google.

The programmer from Kazan chose as a test object YouTube Creator Studio.

He found a logic error that allows you to remove any video through the authorization code own session. Two reports were ready for a few hours.

“In general, all of the research took me 6-7 hours if you take into account the couple of hours, during which time I was struggling with the urge to clear the channel Bieber” – Hismatullin wrote in his blog.

Early in the morning on Saturday, he reported his finding on Google. The answer came very quickly, because, as a programmer says, getting this vulnerability in the wrong hands, their owners could make some considerable troubles on YouTube.

“Google paid me five thousand dollars, and thankfully none Bieber video not affected, “- said Hismatullin.