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Category: Education Sector

Is It Time for a Wall of Shame for the Education Sector?

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Dissent

Over the past few months, SLC Security has been noting a lot of malware and botnet activity in the education sector – problems, they say, that the entities often don’t acknowledge when SLC Security attempts to alert them to problems. Yesterday, SLC Security wrote that they were seeing traffic from: New York University -Malicious Activity Princeton University – Malicious…

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TX: Police investigating access to district files by Lake Dallas High School students

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Dissent

Okay, hacking or otherwise improperly accessing a school district’s files to misuse kids’ lunch money accounts may not sound like the crime of the century, but when a few teens accessed a school district’s files, what else did they do, and what mayhem could they have caused? Megan Gray-Hatfield and Britney Tabor report: Corinth police are…

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Man Stole Students’ Personal Information: Miami-Dade Schools Police

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Dissent

NBC6 reports: A Hollywood man was arrested after he was found with the personal information of dozens of victims, including students, police said. Renardo Anthony Smith, 22, is facing 62 counts of criminal use of personal identification information, according to a Miami-Dade Schools Police report. Read more on NBC6.

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NZ: Hacker avoids conviction over university cyber-attack

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Dissent

Brendan Manning reports: A 20-year-old Auckland computer hacker has been discharged without conviction after launching a cyber-attack on the University of Melbourne in 2011. Neil McDonald appeared before Judge Pippa Sinclair at the North Shore District Court today facing one charge of intentionally accessing a computer system without authority. The charge faces a maximum penalty…

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SG: Nanyang Polytechnic alumni database breached, bank details stolen

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Dissent

Channel NewsAsia reports: The database system for Nanyang Polytechnic‘s (NYP) former students was compromised, and bank details were stolen, according to the school. About 240 former students, mostly from its 1994 to 1999 batches, were affected by the breach, and NYP issued a letter to inform them of the incident on Feb 5. The hacker…

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GA: Shorter U. students claim to be victims of identity theft

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Dissent

There may be a follow-up to a breach involving theft of student records noted on this site in November 2014. Jeremy Stewart reports: The September 2014 theft of student files from Shorter University could be the source of problems for two Rome women who say they are the victims of fraudulent tax returns. Whitney Chanelle Ringer,…

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