Tan Weizhen reports: Computer security is being beefed up across the National University of Singapore (NUS) after sensitive data of more than 15,000 alumni members was leaked in an e-mail. On April1, the NUS Career Centre sent an e-mail to about 450 NUS alumni, all of whom graduated last year, to invite them to a…
Category: Education Sector
TX: Box With Private Information Found Outside Elementary School
Monica Balderrama reports that following up on a phone call, KFOX found a box with personal information of hundreds of teachers, students and parents outside of Eastwood Knolls Elementary School in the Ysleta School District. The documents, which included school registration forms, immunization records and copies of birth certificates, as well as a roster with…
HK: School website tests show up security lapses
Khushwant Singh of AsiaOne reports that (as elsewhere), many educational institutions in Singapore are inadvertently exposing personal information of students and staff on the web.
TX: Update on Irving ISD breach: employee data on discarded report resulted in ID theft
Back in February, CBS News reported that dozens of Irving Independent School District employees had become victims of ID theft and that a former volunteer at the school, Sharon Seeley, had been charged in connection with the case. Now today, Katherine Leal Unmuth of the Dallas Morning News provides an update on this case. Apparently…
Penn State reports second breach in 2009
Penn State does not seem to be having a great year in terms of data security and malware. Indeed, when I saw the newest incident in my newsreader, I skipped it at first, thinking it was a previously reported breach, but it’s not. On March 23, the University confirmed that 10,868 Social Security numbers in…
CT: Glitch Leads to Campus Gmail Vulnerability
Seen on The Wesleyan Argus: When Information Technology Services (ITS) switched Wesleyan’s e-mail to Gmail in January of this year, students were able to log into other students’ e-mails for about a month by typing in a username and leaving the password field blank. This glitch has been but one of a multitude of issues…