New Delhi, June 11 -- Nisarga Adhikary, the teenager who had flagged the vulnerabilities in the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) on-screen marking (OSM) system, has been hired by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). According to a Hindustan Times report, Nisarga Adhikary was appointed this week as Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and threat intelligence engineer at the institute's technology innovation hub C3iHub.

In a blog post on May 22, teenage cybersecurity researcher Nisarga Adhikary flagged that the online grading portal used by the CBSE could have permitted a full takeover of an examiner's account, and potentially allowed tampering with marks or disruption of the grading process.

In his post, Nisarga Adhikary claime...