New Delhi, June 11 -- Job applications typically comprise a covering e-mail and a resume; in the case of Nisarga Adhikary, 19, it was a blog post detailing vulnerabilities in the Central Board of Secondary Education's on-screen portal. This week, Adhikary was appointed Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and threat intelligence engineer at IIT Kanpur's technology innovation hub C3iHub. IIT Kanpur director Manindra Agrawal said he reached out to Adhikary after reading that post, published on May 22. "Nisarga Adhikary has been appointed as an engineer in our cybersecurity team. A few years ago, we had similarly recruited a couple of young engineers for the same team. I am not sure whether he is the youngest recruit at IIT Kanpur, but he is certainly among the youngest engineers to have been hired by the institute," Agrawal added. The vulnerabilities highlighted by Adhikary are just one thread in a controversy that has erupted over the adoption of on screen marking. Worse, with no bids for the first tender and no successful ones for the second, the technical criteria was lowered for the third, which was eventually won by Coempt Edu Teck. HT's reporting has also discovered that the cybersecurity certificates submitted by Coempt covered a different client's deployment of the same software but on a pre-production staged environment. At IIT Kanpur, Adhikary, who cleared his Class 12 exams this year, will analyse actionable information from publicly available sources and identify vulnerabilities in websites and applications, helping organisations address and patch potential security flaws, officials said on Tuesday. "The salary is decent, but I was expecting a bit more. I'm used to working on projects and with companies based in the US, and I do miss the financial advantage that comes with earning in dollars because of the USD-INR conversion," Adhikary said....