Associated Press reports: A tutor at the center of an alleged high school grade-changing scandal has pleaded not guilty to computer fraud and commercial burglary. The Orange County Register says Timothy Lance Lai entered pleas Tuesday to five felony counts and faces up to five years and eight months in prison if convicted. Read more…
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TX: Investigation reveals student records from Whitehouse ISD stolen from Louisiana archival service
Ashley Slayton reports: The FBI is investigating a theft of student records at Whitehouse Independent School District. Read more on KLTV A statement prominently linked from the district’s homepage says, in part: PRESS RELEASE: ATTENTION TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2011 AND CLASS OF 2012 Whitehouse Independent School District has received notification from…
Security breach pushes Cumberland Valley officials to move up plans for network audit
Tricia Kline reports an update to a breach reported in August: The Cumberland Valley School Board has approved a $43,000 contract for a security audit of the district computer network following a security breach that was discovered in August. Before the breach occurred, CV spokeswoman Tracy Panzer said, the district was planning to budget a security audit…
ND: Audit: Not making security top concern led to NDUS breach
Tu-Uyen Tran reports that an audit conducted in the wake of NDUS’s breach earlier this year found major problems that went far beyond the few employees who were eventually fired: An email a stranger sent to the North Dakota University System’s computer security officer on the morning of Feb. 7 was the first sign that…
Shorter University responds to theft of records of former student athletes
This item is from late September. Jeremy Stewart reported: Shorter University is reviewing security protocol after a group of files containing students’ personal information was removed from a campus building. A letter obtained by the Rome News-Tribune was sent out to former student-athletes by Shorter Vice President for Finance and CFO Susan Zeird urging them to…
Attackers go back to school: phishing from .edu leads to ZeuS
Ronnie Tokazowski reports: On October 28th, several of our employees reported a wave of suspicious emails. The most peculiar of the bunch originated from an American university. Analyzing the email headers revealed some interesting information: the attackers sent the phishing email from within a compromised .edu domain. Read more and see the screencaps on PhishMe. They do…