When a Boston University server was used to launch attacks against a system in Nova Scotia in May, the Nova Scotia network administrator contacted BU to alert them. BU’s month-long investigation revealed that one of its servers had been compromised – possibly by a hacker in Russia – in March 2015. Of note, the compromise…
Category: Education Sector
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology email gaffe exposes student info
AP reports: Officials at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology say an email that a university employee inadvertently sent to graduate students included an attachment with names, student identification numbers and grade point averages of about 350 students. Read more on Idaho Statesman.
Clayton Valley Charter attorney asks newspaper to return hacked files if obtained
Matthias Gafni has an update to a hack previously noted on this blog: An attorney for Clayton Valley Charter High School has shed new light on the extent of documents hacked from the school’s executive director. In an email sent Tuesday to reporters at this newspaper, attorney Paul Minney wrote that records obtained through a…
Who hacked Rutgers? University spending up to $3M to stop next cyber attack
Speaking of universities getting hacked, Kelly Heyboer reports that multiple attacks on Rutgers University that have resulted in the university investing seriously in preventing the next attack. Heyboer reports, in part: It is unclear if one cyber attacker was responsible for the series of disruptions that knocked Rutgers’ vast computer network offline four times during the 2014-2015 school…
More American universities hacked by JM511
Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned. The hacker who uses the nick “JM511” has been busy hacking more universities and has dumped some data from the University of California at Los Angeles. In a tweet last night, @JM511 noted that they had been warned twice: You’ve bEEn #warned #2times @UCLA — JM511 Hacker☠ (@JM511) August…
University of Michigan breaks down August social media hack
Katie Penrod reports on some nice transparency by U. Michigan: After several of the University’s official Facebook pages were hacked last week, administrators spent time reflecting on what went wrong. In light of the hack, University of Michigan Social Media, which runs all of the University’s social media accounts, published a case study analyzing the…