Jeff Long and Bill Grimes report: The school board on Thursday expelled three Effingham High School students — one until the end of the 2015-16 school year and two until March 19, 2017. The expulsions took effect immediately. Although school officials would not explain the reason for the expulsions, citing student privacy laws, Effingham County…
Category: Education Sector
AU: FIT College hacked because “they need better security”
FIT College in Australia trains personal trainers. Unfortunately, their infosecurity wasn’t as fit as their trainers, it seems. The same hacker who hacked South West TAFE in Australia also claims to have hacked FIT and dumped a listing of their available databases on Pastebin yesterday. “A lot more in this breach would have been achievable,” the hacker, who tweets…
Ca: Computer network security breach at Limestone District School Board
CKWS TV reports: The Limestone District School Board’s information technology department is trying to find out how a folder with personal information on staff became public – albeit for a short period of time. The information concerns all current board employees and past employees back to 2001. A memo to all staff – obtained by…
AU: Ivanhoe Grammar under fire for exposing former students in email about alleged sex offenses
Ashley Argoon and Kathryn Powley report: Ivanhoe Grammar School has come under further fire after identifying alumni in an email about alleged historic sex offences against a student. In a potential breach of privacy, the posh school revealed the private email addresses of 1000 past students to whom it wrote offering counselling services after veteran…
WA: Student hacker disables hundreds of email accounts
KOMO News reports that an unnamed high school student who attends Oak Harbor High School is in trouble for disabling hundreds of email accounts throughout the Oak Harbor School District. “This individual inappropriately obtained passwords to certain accounts,” said Kellie Tormey, Oak Harbor School District. A somewhat surprising aspect to the report is a statement by an…
“University of Racism” hacked; will others go after U. of Oklahoma student records?
“Because none of them seem to give a shit…” – a hacker commenting on the lack of response to notifying the U. of Oklahoma that he had hacked them. This blogger has repeatedly lamented the generally inadequate data security in the education sector and the fact that no federal agency actually enforces data security at the post-secondary…