Natasha Singer reports: When Tony Porterfield’s two sons came home from elementary school with an assignment to use a reading assessment site called Raz-Kids.com, he was curious, as a parent, to see how it worked. As a software engineer, he was also curious about the site’s data security practices. And he was dismayed to discover that…
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TR: Education Ministry database breach leaves millions at ID theft risk
Following up on the data protection/breach problems in Turkey, BGN News reports that a breach in Ministry of Education IT system puts ID information of 15 million students, their parents, and teachers at risk: According to Cumhuriyet daily, the General Directorate of Information Infrastructure Systems as well as the General Directorate of Support Services memo titled “Password…
Education And Information Sharing: Underutilized Tools In FTC’s Data Security Work
Glenn G. Lammi of the Washington Legal Foundation writes: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought 52 enforcement actions involving data breaches. Fifty of those businesses, whose computer systems were illegally accessed by hackers, settled rather than fight FTC’s accusations that they acted “deceptively” or “unfairly” under § 5 of the FTC Act. And yet,…
Another breach in post-secondary education reminds us again that no one’s enforcing data security at the federal level
What St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, NY wrote to enrollees and applicants after a security incident: On June 28, 2014, a St. Francis employee reported the loss of an external hard drive. Compare that to what they told the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office in their cover letter: On June 28, 2014, St. Francis…
Just in Time Research: Data Breaches in Higher Education
Just in Time Research: Data Breaches in Higher Education This “Just in Time” research is in response to recent discussions on the EDUCAUSE Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) discussion list about data breaches in higher education. Using data from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, this research analyzes data breaches attributed to higher education. The results…
UK Council for Graduate Education Rehacked, Internal Message from JANET Posted in Deface
Yesterday i did an article on a leak of data and a defacement on UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) which was carried out by a hacker using the handle smitt3nz It now Appears that after about 3 days since the original data leak and defacement the hacker has returned to re-deface the site with a…