Kashmiri techie wins NASA’s ‘Hall of Fame’ after spotting data breach vulnerabilities

A 22-year-old techie from Jammu and Kashmir has entered the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Hall of Fame for recognizing knowledge breach vulnerabilities of their system.

Muneeb Amin Bhat, a cyber safety researcher, is from Zungalpora village in South Kashmir’s Kulgam.

Muneeb reported his findings underneath NASA’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP), which facilitates the US company’s consciousness of in any other case unknown vulnerabilities. As Muneeb is sure by the VDP Guidelines, he can not disclose the specifics of the exterior vulnerabilities within the NASA System. Although, he says it did contain delicate knowledge publicity, reported WION.

Earlier, he had additionally earned the ‘Hall of Fame’ from tech big Apple.

”I used to be included within the ‘Hall of Fame’ by Apple in 2023. They had given me permission to ethically hack their programs to verify the vulnerabilities and report it to them and so they validated it later and acknowledged it and later added my identify into the ‘Hall of Fame’,” he was quoted as saying by WION.

“Recently I had performed the identical for NASA, and I discovered some vulnerabilities and I reported them. In the identical means, it was acknowledged by NASA and so they later included me within the Hall of Fame. I’m extraordinarily pleased, and I’m very pleased to assist the safety organisations to assist them safe their knowledge,” stated Muneeb Amin Bhat.