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Former University of Iowa student pleads guilty to grade-changing hacking scheme

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Dissent

Jordan Prochnow reports that Trevor Graves, the former University of Iowa student who had been charged with hacking the school’s network to change grades, was back in court on Monday to plead guilty. According to a plea agreement, Graves intentionally “caused the transmission of a command that caused damage and impairment to the integrity or…

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Mount Ida students’ records shared without their permission

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Dissent

This may be more a matter for PogoWasRight.org than this site, so I’ll cross-post it over there. Laura Krantz reports: Students and parents at Mount Ida College say they are furious because the college shared their private records with UMass Dartmouth without their permission, amid a controversial plan to shut down the college and offer…

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Florence school system gets first ever IT report

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Dissent

If you care about data security in k-12, read this news report by Lisa Singleton-Rickman of TimesDaily concerning an Alabama school district.  I think it serves as a useful example of what we’re up against. Start with the fact that the state does not require any IT audits in k-12 districts. Don’t ask, don’t tell? But Florence…

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Personal information of 1 million potential college applicants ‘exposed inadvertently’

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Dissent

Emily Tate reports that a vendor in the higher education space exposed more than 1 million potential college applicants’ information due to a misconfigured rsync backup: The data — which included names, phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, high school graduation years and, in a few cases, dates of birth and Social Security numbers —…

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Mistake in Some Google Groups Permissions Left Sensitive Info Accessible to Boston College community

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Dissent

Steven Everett and Connor Murphy report: Until December 2017, Google Groups containing hundreds of University communications and associated documents with restricted, confidential, or otherwise sensitive information had misconfigured permission settings such that anyone who could access the Boston College G Suite—known formally as Google Apps—could view them, a Heights investigation found. The Heights notified the…

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Police: Hackers tried to alter grades at Virginia school

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Dissent

A search warrant says hackers have attempted to change grades at a Virginia high school. The Washington Post cites the warrant filed in Fairfax County that says the attack began in November when emails were sent from a known Oakton High School Honor Council with a link it purported would take readers to news about…

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