Scott Dance reports: Nearly a year after a massive data breach at the University of Maryland, state auditors say the campus network is still vulnerable to hackers — in part because gaps they identified five years ago remain. While patching those holes would not have prevented the breach, auditors and university officials said Wednesday, some…
Category: Education Sector
Officials report University of Oklahoma nursing web server compromised (updated)
NewsOK reports: The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center announced Monday that a College of Nursing Web server was compromised. University personnel discovered the security breach Oct. 20, according to a news release. While working to recover the system on Nov. 3, they learned the compromise could have enabled unauthorized access to sensitive data. University…
CO: Pueblo school district heightens security after an online breach
KRDO reports: Pueblo City School District 60 is increasing security after a student found a way to access other students’ accounts. The Pueblo Chieftain reports that a student demonstrated how simple it was to access other students’ accounts since the username and password are almost identical on Infinite Campus, the program students use that has…
VA: Security breach reveals personal data on Prince George’s school employees
Ovetta Wiggins reports: The Prince George’s County Public School System notified employees on Friday evening of a possible security breach involving employees’ personal data. […] Davis said a report that contained employees’ social security numbers, birth dates and employee identification numbers was emailed outside of the school system. A spokeswoman for the system said the…
Former BYU-Idaho student charged with grand theft and computer crimes
Caleb Despain reports: Jacob Mahonri Espinal, a former BYU-Idaho student, was formally charged with two counts of computer crimes, felonies and grand theft, a felony. […] According to the Rexburg Police Department report, Espinal, a former document processor and graduation specialist at BYU-Idaho’s Student Records and Registrations Office, posted an associates degree in science he…
Florida student aid accounts used in ID theft affecting 644 victims
AP reports: Accounts used by South Florida college students to receive financial aid were used in a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said Tuesday that 21 people have been charged, most of them current or former students at Miami Dade College. The students were using…