{"id":2234,"date":"2022-03-01T06:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/?page_id=2234"},"modified":"2022-03-01T06:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:30:31","slug":"alumnus-pustam-raut-has-been-awarded-5000-and-hall-of-fame-by-google","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/alumnus-pustam-raut-has-been-awarded-5000-and-hall-of-fame-by-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Pustam Raut has been awarded $5,000 and Hall of Fame by Google"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/testoir.iisc.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pustam-Raut1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pustam-Raut1.jpg 798w, https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pustam-Raut1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pustam-Raut1-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nAlumnus&nbsp;<strong>Pustam Raut<\/strong>&nbsp;from the Aerospace Engineering department has been awarded&nbsp;<strong>$5,000 (INR 3.75 lakh)<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Hall of Fame<\/strong>&nbsp;by Google for his contributions to the safety and security of the&nbsp;Android ecosystem. Google awards researchers who help them keep their products and the Internet safe and secure. He discovered the&nbsp;<strong>High Severity bug<\/strong>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<strong>Android ecosystem<\/strong>&nbsp;and responsibly reported it to the Android Security Team in 2021. The vulnerability (<strong>CVE-2021-39631<\/strong>), rated as&nbsp;<strong>High Severity<\/strong>,\u200bcould be exploited to disclose the information without additional execution privileges and user interactions. The flaws in the code compromise the integrity of the Android user data. After a few months of investigation, Google awarded him that amount and enlisted his name in the&nbsp;<strong>Google\/Android Hall of Fame<\/strong>&nbsp;for his contributions. He hails from the&nbsp;<strong>Sarlahi<\/strong>&nbsp;district of&nbsp;<strong>Nepal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/source.android.com\/security\/overview\/acknowledgements?authuser=1#february-2022\">https:\/\/source.android.com\/security\/overview\/acknowledgements?authuser=1#february-2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumnus&nbsp;Pustam Raut&nbsp;from the Aerospace Engineering department has been awarded&nbsp;$5,000 (INR 3.75 lakh)&nbsp;and&nbsp;Hall of Fame&nbsp;by Google for his contributions to the safety and security of the&nbsp;Android ecosystem. Google awards researchers who help them keep their products and the Internet safe and secure. He discovered the&nbsp;High Severity bug&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Android ecosystem&nbsp;and responsibly reported it to the Android Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oir.iisc.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}