Aditya Anand writes: This is a follow up article to the previous piece that I wrote – How I hacked into a college’s website to obtain the student’s database. Refer to my last hack – How I hacked into a college’s website! …. What was different than the last time? The last time I tried to hack…
Category: Education Sector
‘The college won’t tell us anything’: After data breach, Augustana College alumni are demanding answers
As we know, incident response and notification dsn’t always go smoothly, and people may be increasingly frustrated by the lack of information they can obtain.
Update: Georgia Tech to offer credit monitoring after data breach affecting 1.3M
Aaron Diamant reports: ATLANTA – Georgia Tech is taking steps to help people whose personal information may have been compromised during a data breach. Channel 2’s Aaron Diamant has been following this story since it broke in April, when the college said someone gained unauthorized access to a web application, affecting nearly 1.3 million people, including “some current…
WannaCry? Hundreds of US schools still haven’t patched servers
Sean Gallagher reports: … cities aren’t the only highly vulnerable targets to be found by would-be attackers. There are hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected Windows systems in the United States that still appear to be vulnerable to an exploit of Microsoft Windows’ Server Message Block version 1 (SMB v. 1) file sharing protocol, despite repeated…
In today’s installment of “How Not to Respond to a Breach,” we give you Paterson Public Schools
From the for-the-love-of-a-free-press-would-someone-PLEASE-teach-these-people-about-the-first-amendment? dept. Earlier this week, this site noted reporting by Paterson Times about an alleged breach involving the Paterson Public Schools in New Jersey. We also picked up a follow-up report that covered some… um…unexpected claims by the District as to how many threat actors might be involved and whether it was a…
Update: West Hartford officials warn parents of test registration platform data breach
Doug Levin kindly alerted me that the Hartford Courant has a story on the Total Registration data security incident. … The school officials said that Total Registration, used by the district to register students for certain exams, informed them that certain information provided by students including name, grade level, gender, date of birth, address, email…