So your organization contracts with a firm that conducts background checks on your hires, and you require your contractors and subcontractors to conduct background checks on their employees. You’ve got your bases covered, right? What could possibly go wrong?
Category: Education Sector
Update: U. of Sydney hack was by Abdilo; Dozens of others attacked, too
Earlier today, I posted a breach involving the University of Sydney. As an update, DataBreaches.net can now report that the breach was the work of Abdilo, who has made a point of going after universities (as other posts on this site have demonstrated). Abdilo had dropped hints about an Orsee 0day previously. Today, however, he made it clear that this…
AU: 5,000 University of Sydney students notified that hack exposed their details (Updated)
Tim Asimakis reports: Thousands of students were today contacted by Duncan Ivison, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and informed that, due to an an information security breach, their personal information could now be in the hands of hackers. According to the email, the University’s Information Security Team identified that the ORSEE…
PA: South Western school officials investigate security breach
Updating the breach report involving South Western High School in Pennsylvania: The Evening Sun now reports that the school board met last night in closed session to discuss the breach, which appears to have involved two high school students. All the superintendent would say is that they were probably just trying to get attention. If…
Is It Time for a Wall of Shame for the Education Sector?
Over the past few months, SLC Security has been noting a lot of malware and botnet activity in the education sector – problems, they say, that the entities often don’t acknowledge when SLC Security attempts to alert them to problems. Yesterday, SLC Security wrote that they were seeing traffic from: New York University -Malicious Activity Princeton University – Malicious…
TX: Police investigating access to district files by Lake Dallas High School students
Okay, hacking or otherwise improperly accessing a school district’s files to misuse kids’ lunch money accounts may not sound like the crime of the century, but when a few teens accessed a school district’s files, what else did they do, and what mayhem could they have caused? Megan Gray-Hatfield and Britney Tabor report: Corinth police are…