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Education Sector Struggles With Botnets: BitSight

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dissent

As this blog makes painfully clear, the education sector struggles with data security and lags way behind other sectors, in my opinion. Now a new report indicates another area of security where they’re lagging. Brian Prince reports: The education industry – which includes education companies, schools and colleges – brought up the rear in a new…

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Data breach reported at Roxbury Community College

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dissent

No details yet, but Boston.com reports that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is looking into a breach at Roxbury Community College. The college community was notified by e-mail yesterday that a breach was discovered around March 16. According to Boston.com, authorities were on-site yesterday morning to collect evidence and to interview college employees as part of the investigation. I…

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Personal data of people who never even applied to Auburn University was also exposed in breach

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dissent

The Auburn University breach involving the exposure of information just got worse, in my opinion. Erin Edgemon reports that some of the people who had their data exposed not only never attended Auburn, but never even applied there. Not surprisingly, they would like to know how Auburn got personal information about them that wound up exposed. But Auburn reportedly…

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FL: Was Pasco County School District negligent in securing their network from students?

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dissent

WTSP has provided a follow-up to a report noted earlier involving a 14-year old student at Paul R. Smith Middle School who is facing two felony charges for allegedly hacking into the Pasco County School District‘s network.  Their new report addresses some of the questions I raised in my previous post about the incident. In their update, the student, who is now…

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FL: 14-year-old arrested after hacking into FCAT

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

For those not familiar with it, FCAT is the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, a standardized test for assessing student performance.  WTSP reports: A 14-year-old student at Paul R. Smith Middle School was arrested Wednesday after investigators say he hacked into the school’s computer system and accessed the server containing 2014 FCAT information. In addition, the student…

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FL: Former Miami Dade College employee indicted in tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

From today’s press release from the USAO for the Southern District of Florida: United States v. Michelson Jeancy, Case No. 15-20230-CR-Huck On April 3, 2015, defendant Michelson Jeancy, 35, of Miami, was charged by indictment for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme. According to the indictment, Jeancy was an employee of a Miami-Dade…

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