HJNews reports: A Utah State University staff member accidentally sent an email message Thursday containing 347 individual names and Social Security numbers to a group of USU student veterans, the university revealed Friday. Read more on HJNews. The full statement from the university, linked from their home page yesterday, reads: Accidental security breach affects 347…
Category: Education Sector
Dear EDUCAUSE Security Maillist – some advice from Abdilo
When someone who’s either hacked your databases or is likely to hack them in the future tells you how to prevent his type of attacks, you might want to pay some attention. Seen on Pastebin, as posted by Abdilo: Dear EDUCAUSE Security Mail-list, ( Good luck profiling me <3 ) How to stop me from…
D.C. Public Schools Website Exposed Confidential Info About Students With Disabilities
John Templon reports: Like many institutions, the Office of Data and Accountability for Washington D.C.’s public schools uses an “intranet” for sharing confidential documents. Unlike most intranets, theirs was unintentionally public. […] Hundreds of documents were hosted on the intranet, some providing an unfiltered look into the inner workings of the city’s public school system,…
And then I stumbled across these hacks by Zyklon
Seen on Pastebin, dated January 15: Hacked By Zyklon #Wonkasec WonkaSec Temp Homepage: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/Index%285%29.html Twitter: http://twitter.com/zyclonb4u Website Hacked: http://soviethistory.macalester.edu Very small portion of the accounts, the other 90,000+ will be posted here: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/DbDump.php The accounts with .edu emails are most likely professors, if you are in college…
U. of Chicago still compromised, data for sale on underground – researchers (updated)
On January 24, this blog reported that Carbonic had claimed to have hacked the University of Chicago. The U. of Chicago never responded to a notification and inquiry this blog sent via e-mail on January 22nd. Yesterday, SLC Security reported that the university is still leaking information and is still vulnerable: During a recent receive (sic)…
Yoohoo, Texas A&M: wake up!
SLC Security reports that they are seeing indicators that this entity has been breached for over a month and does not realize it. It appears as though their infrastructure is being used to launch farther attacks on other educational institutions. They also appear on Emerging Threats for malicious activity since at lease the 11th of…