Access to IEEE Spectrum articles is possible for anyone without payment, due to a software weakness.
Minas Dasygenis, lecturer at the University of Western Macedonia, Department of Computer Engineering, is today publishing an extremely important finding for the academic community (and beyond).
Mr. Dasygenis, with numerous publications in academic journals on information systems security issues, through a Video message that he published on his YouTube channel, analyzes precisely how it is possible to bypass the security of Spectrum IEEE and more specifically the full reading of articles without payment. The video message is titled “Relying on client side security on web programming is bad”
IEEE Spectrum is the magazine and the most well-known website of IEEE, the largest organization of professionals in the field of applied sciences. The organization publishes pioneering academic studies by distinguished professors, doctoral candidates and scientists. It has over 400,000 members (!) who are informed daily for a fee about the latest developments in the fields of technology, engineering & science through podcasts, videos and info graphics. Access to the electronic magazine is possible via Desktop, Tablet and Smartphone
Watch the relevant video released by Mr. Dasygenis where he bypasses the online application with specific manipulations.
By following the procedure, students and anyone else who wishes can read the full specialized articles on various topics (which are normally paid) from the well-known website IEEE Spectrum.
You can get immediate information about the academic interests of Mr. Minas Dasygenis on his Twitter and on his Linkedin Profile [here]
We believe that Mr. Dasygenis's discovery will be of great help to students and the academic community in their search for relevant information on telecommunications & IT issues, and without the slightest cost!
It would indeed be extremely interesting to see similar findings/publications by other Greek academics.
SecNews thanks Mr. Dasygenis for the timely & accurate information regarding the issue identified.
