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A third of U.K. teachers have not received cyber security training this year, and only two-thirds of those that did deemed it useful, according to a government poll. Continue reading One-Third of UK Teachers Lack Cybersecurity Training, While 34% Experience Security Incidents
Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system.
What’s not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for low-performing students to fail—they have a grading floor under them, they know it, and that allows them to game the system.
Several teachers whom I spoke with or who responded to my questionnaire mentioned policies stating that students cannot get lower than a 50 percent on any assignment, even if the work was never done, in some cases. A teacher from Chapel Hill, N.C., who filled in the questionnaire’s “name” field with “No, no, no,” said the 50 percent floor and “NO attendance enforcement” leads to a scenario where “we get students who skip over 100 days, have a 50 percent, complete a couple of assignments to tip over into 59.5 percent and then pass.”…
This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools.
During the process, the group broke into the school’s IT systems; repurposed software used to monitor students’ computers; discovered a new vulnerability (and reported it); wrote their own scripts; secretly tested their system at night; and managed to avoid detection in the school’s network. Many of the techniques were not sophisticated, but they were pretty much all illegal…
Interesting story of test-takers in India using Bluetooth-connected flip-flops to communicate with accomplices while taking a test.
What’s interesting is how this cheating was discovered. It’s not that someone noticed the communication devi… Continue reading Cheating on Tests
Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite:
Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents from eight school districts, seven of which are in Texas, showing that administrators paid as much $11,582 for the controversial surveillance technology. Known as mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs), this type of tech is able to siphon text messages, photos, and application data from student’s devices. Together, the districts encompass hundreds of schools, potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of students to invasive cell phone searches. …
Continue reading US Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
Plixer’s Justin Jett, Compliance & Audit director, discusses how to do more with less when your security resources are thin. Continue reading How to Increase Your Security Posture with Fewer Resources
Attackers are targeting students and faculty alike with malware, phishing, DDoS, Zoom bombs and more, the FBI and CISA said. Continue reading Feds: K-12 Cyberattacks Dramatically on the Rise
The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis…. Continue reading Hacking AI-Graded Tests
The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis.
Continue reading Hacking AI-Graded Tests
More than 24.5 million records belonging to K–12 school districts and colleges in the United States have been hit by around 1,300 data breaches since 2005, according to a new report from Comparitech. Not all data breaches are intentional, or the … Continue reading US K-12 and Colleges Suffered 1,300 Data Breaches in 15 Years