Brunel University London agreed to sign an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after an incident involving the loss of 10 boxes with seven personnel files and 61 Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) [TUPE] files. According to the undertaking, the incident occurred following an office renovation to remove asbestos. Brunel University London staff members…
Category: Education Sector
Corona Del Mar tutor who stole teachers’ login credentials to change students’ grades sentenced
I’ve reported on the Timothy Lance Lai/Corona Del Mar grade-changing case a number of times in the past few years. Now Megan Geuss reports: On Tuesday, Southern California tutor Timothy Lance Lai pleaded guilty to computer fraud and burglary for placing keylogging software on teachers’ computers to steal login credentials which he used to change…
Higher Education Institutions Increasingly Falling Victim to Cyberattacks
Anna C. Watterson and Sean B. Hoar write: Higher education institutions are treasure troves for hackers. Colleges and universities are huge repositories of research data, sensitive information for large populations of applicants and enrolled students (personal, academic, financial and health data), as well as sensitive personal and tax information for all faculty and staff. Higher education…
UK: Bodmin College website offline after it was hacked with obscenities
Ah, I missed this one from last week. On July 30th, CG_Oscar reported: A disgruntled former student is thought to be responsible for hacking Bodmin College’s website. People finding the website online are confronted with a series of obscenities. Although the home page is still active, other pages are no longer available to view. IT…
UConn Discloses Data Breach at School of Engineering
The University is responding to a criminal cyberintrusion through which hackers apparently originating in China gained access to servers at UConn’s School of Engineering. UConn has implemented a combination of measures intended to further protect the University from cyberattack, and to assist individuals and research partners whose data may have been exposed. UConn IT security professionals,…
AU: University Of Queensland logins leaked by “Nightmare Squad”
It appears the University of Queensland has either been hacked by “Nightmare Squad” or the group leaked some data that was easy to find. @NightmareSquad describes themselves as an “#Anonymous blackhat team fighting for the people of South America.” Their Twitter account has recently announced a number of hacks in Brazil, including some government sites. I tweeted them an…