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The train wreck that was (is?) Pasco County School District’s IT security

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dissent

I continue to look for details on the case of a 14-year old middle school student who is facing two felony counts for allegedly hacking into his district’s network (see previous coverage of the case on this blog here and here). In today’s installment of How Badly Can a District Screw Up InfoSecurity? Ashley Feinberg of…

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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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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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Southern Powerlifting Federation member data repeatedly dumped – does anyone there notice?

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Today’s second example of an entity not knowing their data has been repeatedly dumped is Southern Powerlifting Federation. On April 7, “Jabb” (@Versifyings) dumped some of  their smf_members database on Pastebin. The dump consisted of approximately 440 email addresses and hashed passwords. The database records indicate that there were over 15,000 records. Whether Jabbs acquired them all…

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Have you googled your site to see if you’ve been hacked?

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

It’s 2015, and too many entities still don’t seem to know to do Google searches or Pastebin searches on themselves to find out if they’ve been hacked or their data dumped somewhere. There’s no way this blog can report on them all or even alert them all, but one of today’s examples is WAYEB, the European Association…

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