Pakistan is the land of opportunity that possess individuals which oozes with potential to achieve greatness, 14-year-old Muhammad Shahzad also falls into this category.
According to local media reports, Muhammad Shahzad, the teenage security researcher from Pakistan, has now made into the Google Hall of Fame for reporting several vulnerabilities in Google’s web applications, in addition to getting them fixed as well.
Unlike your regular teenager Shahzad was exposed to field of hacking after someone compromised his father’s email account. The teenager has come a long way since then and spends most of his time looking for vulnerabilities in softwares, and has also taught himself to be a security researcher.
“When I was 12, I found Android 4.4 Lock Bypass and Android had no VRP at that time so what I got was only an appreciation email,” said Shahzad who hails from Lahore.
The tech giant Google is currently working on some of the vulnerabilities pointed out by Shahzad, which may result in rewards as well. However, for Shahzad “Being able to represent Pakistan on a global stage, and to be listed with researchers double my age is enough of a reward in itself,” he says.
This is not the first such achievement by the budding hacker, as he was also featured in the Hall of Fame’s of Microsoft, Apple, eBay, and Twitter, and due to expertise in Security Research and Ethical Hacking, Shahzad have visited NUST and UET, as a guest speaker.
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