Andrew Kinney reports on a hack at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Registration at Stevens is like high school sports. It involves waking up at seven in the morning to repeat mindless drills (furiously clicking through Web Self Services). It works with a class hierarchy — juniors trump sophomores who trump freshmen, with seniors…
Category: Education Sector
WordPress GDPR plugin inadvertently exposed sites to hackers
Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Attackers have been exploiting a flaw in a WordPress GDPR-compliance plugin to hijack vulnerable websites and implement remote code execution. The flaw had been present in Wordfence’s GDPR Compliance plugin for at least four months and, ironically, allowed hackers to gain access to a site using the tool. Hackers could then execute any…
Universities hacked in Zimbabwe, Canada
Mandla Ndlovu reports from Zimbabwe: Midlands State University was forced to postpone its Student Representative Council Elections after hackers breached the security system. In a statement posted on http://vote.msu.ac.zw/ the Registrar E Mupfiga said: This communication serves to inform you that the SRC elections which were scheduled for Thursday, 9 November 2018 and Thursday, 15…
OH: Little Miami High School profile hacked on Google
Audra Levy reports: If you went looking for the profile of Little Miami High School on Google on Thursday, you would have been in for a surprise. Someone hacked the profile and renamed the school “Gay Night Club For Teens”. That “someone” appears to have used the school network, and the administration seems to think…
VA: Chesapeake Public Schools’ computer network affected by malware from phishing emails
WTKR reports on an incident in Chesapeake, Virginia: An attack on computers at Grassfield High School has students and parents concerned. Chesapeake Public Schools says a malware attack is responsible for taking the school off the grid. The school district said a virus entered their network through phishing emails sent to employees. Only a couple of…
They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12. The Adults Are Still Trying to Catch Up.
Benjamin Herold has a great piece on EdWeek about two teens in Michigan who have been charged criminally with hacking. It is a case that Doug Levin previously brought to the public’s attention in the context of a question as to whether schools are failing to deal effectively with young curious minds. This particular case…