Shawn Krest reports: The email system for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools was used to send a prank email to all Chapel Hill-Carrboro students and staff members on Wednesday. The school confirmed the attack in an email Wednesday evening. “Someone hacked our district email account and sent a phony message to all staff and students,” the…
Category: Education Sector
Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach after hack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Online education site EduCBA has started notifying customers that they are resetting their passwords after suffering a data breach. EduCBA is an online education site based out of India that offers over 2,500 online courses and job oriented learning programs focus on finance, technology, and business to their 500,000 learners. Yesterday, EduCBA began…
How secure is your child’s data in Virginia’s virtual classrooms?
Tom Nash or the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism reports: … As the pandemic forces Virginia’s 1.2 million public school students to trade classrooms for laptops and smartphones — if they have them — many educators, parents and privacy advocates are raising alarms across the state about children’s digital security. Lapses in online protections have…
Data Leak Suggests China Had Hundreds of Thousands of Coronavirus Cases in 230 Cities
Jim Geraghty reports on a very significant data leak: This may be the most spectacularly under-discussed story of the pandemic: A dataset of coronavirus cases and deaths from the military’s National University of Defense Technology, leaked to 100Reporters, offers insight into how Beijing has gathered coronavirus data on its population. The source of the leak, who…
Danger zone! Brit research supercomputer ARCHER’s login nodes exploited in cyber-attack, admins reset passwords and SSH keys
Gareth Corfield reports: Updated One of Britain’s most powerful academic supercomputers has fallen victim to a “security exploitation” of its login nodes, forcing the rewriting of all user passwords and SSH keys. The intrusion, which is understood to be under investigation by GCHQ offshoot the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), rendered the ARCHER high-performance computing (HPC)…
(Update1) The Palm Beach County School District suffers massive pwd breach after second grader hacks them
See an important update after the original post. From the no-one-could-have-possibly-foreseen-kids-figuring-out-default-password-conventions dept., Andrew Colton reports: The Palm Beach County School District is in the midst of a massive computer security crisis that draws into question the authenticity of every assignment completed by every student since “distance learning” began, after BocaNewsNow.com learned that an elementary school student…