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Bustbyte
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Bustbyte is the company blog at bustbyte.no, writing about security and programming. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post about hacking Blackboard via null bytes in its WebDAV protocol, which let them hijack other accounts, including professors', and change grades before reporting it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-04-17
What Hacker News says?
Some friends and I hacked Blackboard last year. We exploited it by smuggling null bytes (0x00) via. their WebDAV protocol. This made it possible to hijack other accounts, including our professors'. So we hacked our own grades and then reported it. Luckily we didn't suffer the same fate as Demirkapi. Blog post here: https://bustbyte.no/blog/how-we-hacked-blackboard-and-change...
Comment linking /blog/how-we-hacked-blackboard-and-changed-our-grades
on “Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore””Submitted How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018) as a story · 155 points
HN discussionNot all that related, but we found an exploit in Blackboard (the "virtual learning platform") by smuggling null bytes (0x00) via. their WebDAV protocol. This made it possible to hijack other accounts, including our professors'. So we hacked our own grades and then reported it. Blog post here: https://bustbyte.no/blog/how-we-hacked-blackboard-and-change...
Comment linking /blog/how-we-hacked-blackboard-and-changed-our-grades
on “WebDAV (2010)”Submitted How I hacked Blackboard to change my grades (2018) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades as a story · 2 points
HN discussion