Mary-Ann Russon provides additional details on Weev’s hack of printers to spew an anti-semitic message: Auernheimer used a single line of Bash script code to scan the internet for unprotected printers that were connected to the web using the open port 9100, and then created a PostScript file containing a flyer advertising a white supremacist news website…
Category: Education Sector
Anti-Semitic fliers at Princeton U., other colleges were work of known hacker
Kevin Shea reports: The anti-Semitic fliers found on printers at Princeton University and dozens of other colleges last week were the work of a hacker once prosecuted in New Jersey on charges he stole 120,000 email addresses from AT&T-connected iPads. Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, a self-described “white nationalist hacktivist” now living in the partially-recognized country of Abkhazia, said…
Initial Release of the Information Security Primer for Evaluating Educational Software
So pleased to see this announcement from Bill Fitzgerald: One of the unspoken issues in working on security and privacy in educational software is that, while many people are passionate about privacy and security, many people don’t know how to start evaluating software or how to assess any potential risks they might uncover. One of…
Hacker behind anti-Semitic flyers at DePaul University
ABC reports that remote print capabilities have enabled hackers to print and distribute anti-semitic flyers: DePaul University is searching for the hacker behind a white supremacist, anti-Semitic flyer that appeared on campus. The university president says someone hacked into several printers and the flyer printed simultaneously. Officials say the source was not a DePaul account….
Concordia warns university community about possible computer security breach
Karen Seidman reports: The Concordia University community got a lesson in computer security on Monday after the university had to send out a notice telling students and staff that keylogger devices — which can capture keystrokes — were found on some workstations in the Webster and Vanier libraries. They were only found on express workstations, which can be…
AR: Pulaski County Special School District notifies past and current employees of data breach
It was a heck of a week for Pulaski County Special School District employees. One hundred of them got pink slips on Wednesday in a downsizing move, and all former and current employees received emails or phone messages late Friday night alerting them to a data breach in February that had just been discovered. Cynthia Howell reports: Pulaski County Special School…