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Author: Dave Lewis
May 13, 2008 at 6:40 am · Filed under Education, Hacker, News
Apparently reporters at NBC San Diego have discovered that kid can get hacker tools from the internet. This is another case of kids hacking in to change grades. Sure, this is bad behaviour but, you do have to admire their creativity. I wish I thought of that when I was a kid. Mind you, my parchment and quill didn’t have an internet connection.
From NBC San Diego:
The hacking incident resulted in the changing of grades and acquiring teachers’ tests, according to the release.
The computer breach was discovered when a staff member in a computer at school found a flash drive. An initial investigation revealed that the hacking occurred as a desktop security breach.
Students apparently hacked into the computer using stolen passwords and downloaded hacking tools found on the Internet.
The students will appear before district administrative hearing panels
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Author: Dave Lewis
May 9, 2008 at 8:59 am · Filed under News
There was a bill tabled on Wednesday in US Congress that aims to hold DHS’s feet to the flames.
From Securityfocus:
Rep. Jim Langevin, D-RI, introduced a bill on Wednesday that aims to hold the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for investigating every cyber attack and for shoring up its network security.
The bill would better define the roles and responsibilities of the agency’s chief information officer, require that the department reduce the number of successful attacks against its networks and mandate that the DHS investigate the state of contractors’ network security before signing a contract with them. The bill comes after more than a year of investigations by the House of Representative’s Committee for Homeland Security into cybersecurity breaches at numerous government agencies. Rep. Langevin heads up the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity and Science & Technology, which has held most of the hearings on the issues.
For the full piece read on.
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Author: Dave Lewis
May 8, 2008 at 10:28 am · Filed under News
Over on CSO they have an interesting graphical representation of a botnet. David Vorel mapped interconnected bots to create the map.
The map allows you to zoom in a la Google Maps.
Check it out.
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