Reading @_TeaMp0isoN_’s Twitter timeline last night and this morning was somewhat disheartening. Tweet after tweet identified vulnerabilities that would enable hackers access to universities’ sites. For each school named, TeaMp0isoN indicated the type of vulnerability they had found and the vulnerable url. In some cases, if the university has a Twitter account, TeaMp0isoN included their Twitter account…
Category: Education Sector
The train wreck that was (is?) Pasco County School District’s IT security
I continue to look for details on the case of a 14-year old middle school student who is facing two felony counts for allegedly hacking into his district’s network (see previous coverage of the case on this blog here and here). In today’s installment of How Badly Can a District Screw Up InfoSecurity? Ashley Feinberg of…
Education Sector Struggles With Botnets: BitSight
As this blog makes painfully clear, the education sector struggles with data security and lags way behind other sectors, in my opinion. Now a new report indicates another area of security where they’re lagging. Brian Prince reports: The education industry – which includes education companies, schools and colleges – brought up the rear in a new…
Data breach reported at Roxbury Community College
No details yet, but Boston.com reports that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is looking into a breach at Roxbury Community College. The college community was notified by e-mail yesterday that a breach was discovered around March 16. According to Boston.com, authorities were on-site yesterday morning to collect evidence and to interview college employees as part of the investigation. I…
Personal data of people who never even applied to Auburn University was also exposed in breach
The Auburn University breach involving the exposure of information just got worse, in my opinion. Erin Edgemon reports that some of the people who had their data exposed not only never attended Auburn, but never even applied there. Not surprisingly, they would like to know how Auburn got personal information about them that wound up exposed. But Auburn reportedly…
FL: Was Pasco County School District negligent in securing their network from students?
WTSP has provided a follow-up to a report noted earlier involving a 14-year old student at Paul R. Smith Middle School who is facing two felony charges for allegedly hacking into the Pasco County School District‘s network. Their new report addresses some of the questions I raised in my previous post about the incident. In their update, the student, who is now…