Hsing Tseng reports: A juvenile male in connection to a threat made at Rangeview High School has been arrested Thursday, according to the Aurora Police. Extra security was in place Thursday at Rangeview High School after reports of a threat against a teacher at the school. The Aurora Police Department School Resource Officers for Rangeview…
Category: Education Sector
IT: Faulty file caused Lake Norman High School security breach
It’s nice that the district followed up by publicly disclosing what went wrong. Preston Spencer reports: The Lake Norman High student who obtained an administrative password last week did so by using more sophisticated methods than just simply guessing. Dr. David Blattner, chief technology officer for Iredell-Statesville Schools, said the password, which was spread to six other students…
State auditor to examine cybersecurity in Missouri schools
Excellent. NewsOK reports: State Auditor Nicole Galloway on Wednesday announced the launch of a cybersecurity audit initiative in Missouri schools. The initiative will focus on identifying practices that improve the security of information that schools have on students and their families. Read more on NewsOK.
Ca: Data breach turns into MLA laugh-fest
Les Leyne writes: Lovely to see how the latest data-privacy breach moved from a dramatic crisis to light entertainment in the space of a week. The news that the Education Ministry had misplaced a data drive packed with sensitive information about school kids was treated like an Amber Alert when the government ’fessed up to…
NC: High school students charged with hacking into school computers
So simple a child could do it? Fox46 reports: Iredell County, NC – Seven high school students were charged in an Iredell County campus computer breach. On Tuesday, September 1, Iredell Statesville School System reported to the sheriff’s office they has been hacked. The school believed the suspects were students at the school. The ISS IT Department quickly…
Hacker Exfocus Blamed For Knocking Rutgers University Offline With DDoS Attack, Even After Expensive Upgrade
Jeff Stone reports: Someone is tormenting Rutgers University. The New Jersey school announced on Monday it was fending off a distributed denial of service attack that crippled its Internet and Wi-Fi access. It’s just the latest cyberattack on a major U.S. research institution, and comes after a number of similar hacks against Rutgers, a school of approximately…