How I Found Google's Security Vulnerabilities During High School | Johnathan Simon | TEDxBGU

How difficult it is to hack the most secured databases in the world? Johnathan Simon explains how straightforward ideas can lead to critical security vulnerabilities such as in Google, eBay, Netflix and the government's databases.
Johnathan is a high school student. Starting from a young age he became passionate about computer science and even more specifically on information security and artificial intelligence. Throughout high school, Johnathan has discovered some major security vulnerabilities within the most secured and trusted companies such as: Google, eBay, Adobe, Red Hat and more. Due to these discoveries Johnathan is now recognized by those companies, e.g. listed in the Google's Hall of Fame.
In addition, Johnathan also studies artificial intelligence in the EPGY program at Stanford University. Currently and parallel to his high school studies, he is a part-time software developer at "Spectory". During his free time Johnathan enjoys track & field. This hobby took him as far as to have won the "Awty International School" in Houston award for outstanding male track performer and also won second place in Israel's national long jump competition for middle schools.
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