Kudos to Tom Considine of “Who Complys” for increasing local awareness of the need for proper disposal of the student and employee records. Stephanie Carroll reports: The Churchill County School District announced Thursday the purchase of an industrial shredder to update their student record disposal procedures after accusations of illegal disposal. “I think our procedure…
Category: Education Sector
NZ: University warns students on hacking
Jared Savage reports: University students have been warned to watch out for anyone trying to steal their identity after a computer server holding personal information was hacked. An email sent this week by Stephen Whiteside, at the University of Auckland, said unauthorised parties had accessed a single server holding information such as name, date of…
Network security challenges faced by universities
H. Peter Felgentreff, President & CEO of NCP Engineering, discusses challenges faced by universities in balancing a secure and open network and makes some suggestions in this article on Help Net Security.
MO: Hundreds of student records left near dumpster
Frank Wiley of KSDK recently reported: The curriculum is the least of parents’ worries in the Riverview Gardens School District. Sensitive information was tossed aside for anyone to grab papers were filled with student’s phone numbers, ages, pictures and even Social Security numbers. […] The district says it didn’t know this was happening. The director…
Privacy breach by DU
Shruti D reports: Kirti Dargan got the shock of her life when she Googled her name on Friday. Kirti, a student of Moti Lal Nehru college, found her personal details, including her residential address, email ID, and mobile number listed online, for everyone to see. How did the 19-year-old land in such a pickle? Kirti…
Laptop stolen from U Kentucky had info on newborns and mothers
From the University of Kentucky: The University of Kentucky is notifying 2,027 people of a breach of protected health information. Between June 18 and June 21, 2010, a laptop computer containing information from the Newborn Screening Program was stolen from the Department of Pediatrics Newborn Screening Program. The theft was reported to the UK Police…