Amy McDavitt reports: A recent security breach on the Storrs campus revealed a list of former students’ names and Social Security numbers and made them available on the Internet. The university was made aware of the situation Oct. 4 after one of the individuals on the list discovered it and alerted university officials, according to…
Category: Education Sector
Audit: Province and U of Calgary must do better job
Jamie Komarnicki reports: The provincial government and the University of Calgary must do a better job of protecting against unauthorized access to confidential online information, warns Alberta’s auditor general. Service Alberta and the U of C each came under fire in Merwan Saher’s latest report, released Tuesday, for not demonstrating they’ve implemented adequate security policies,…
TX: HISD investigating how its computers were hacked
Erika Mellon reports: Houston school district officials suspect their computer system was hacked over the weekend, leaving employees and students without access to the Internet, online classes and e-mail for two days. The electronic blackout ended late Tuesday afternoon, but the district’s police department was continuing to work with the FBI to investigate the suspected…
Tempering justice with mercy?
A number of people have commented on Twitter and on this blog that the young man who was arrested for breaching the Houston Healthcare database should have been thanked and/or hired. If this were 1983, I might agree with them, but I found myself taking a harder line about the breach as it was not…
Johns Hopkins University e-mail attachment error exposed personal info
Johns Hopkins University has notified the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services of a breach involving 692 of its Applied Physics Laboratory employees’ dependents. Because HHS’s breach logs don’t provide a lot of detail, I contacted JHU for additional information on the incident. As I have come to expect from them, they promptly responded with…
Thames Valley District hacker: “I did it to prove to people that their information isn’t as secure as they think”
Norman De Bono updates the story on the Thames Valley District hack: The board’s student portal was hacked, and Facebook quickly became rife with reports it was the work of a 16-year-old, Lucan-area student in Grade 11 at Medway high school in Arva. In Facebook message exchanges, someone purporting to be the youth said he…