Guwahati writes; While surfing for similar vulnerability, the information security enthusiast also managed to find flaws in the content management system of a political party’s website. Rony Das, a class XII student of Bongaigaon Railway HS School hacked into the servers of the Gauhati University website through his Android phone in December last year and…
Category: Education Sector
MA: Theft of two registrar’s laptops put Brandeis University students’ data at risk (Updated)
Abby Patkin reports: Two Apple laptops containing academic and personal information for all students enrolled or taking a course at the University from the summer of 2012 to the present were stolen from the University Registrar, according to a Nov. 12 email sent by Marianne Cwalina, the senior vice president for finance and treasurer. The…
KR: KAIST students’ credit card information stolen
Kim Se-jeong reports: More than a dozen students and faculty at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST) have had their credit card information stolen by a hacker who attempted to make payments in Japan, according to the school, Thursday. The school said that the number of victims was about 20, but the number…
AU: TAFE hack: Student ‘sex assault and bullying’ details hacked in IT breach
Amy Remeikis reports that despite early assurances from the government that all information was “low-level,” the TAFE breach (noted previously on this blog) included some sensitive information such as sex assault and bullying complaints: “However, in relation to records deemed to be of a more sensitive nature, the department needed to contact 16 people to alert…
AU: Queensland TAFE student data exposed in hack
Asha Barbaschow reports: TAFE Queensland has experienced a breach that has seen the personal details of thousands of the state’s TAFE students exposed. Queensland Attorney General Yvette D’Ath insists, however, the cyber attack did not uncover anything that wouldn’t be available in a phone book. D’Ath played down the IT system hack on Tuesday morning…
KS: Wichita schools’ computer systems back in action after attempted hack
Ben Jordan has the follow-up on the attempted hacking previously reported: The Wichita School District‘s computer systems are back in action after an attempted cyber attack that forced them to shut down last month. After shutting down programs for two weeks, the computer systems have been found to be safe. Now all computer systems, including…