Collaborate Disseminate
Lance Vick suggesting that students hack their schools’ surveillance systems. "This is an ethical minefield that I feel students would be well within their rights to challenge, and if needed, undermine," he said. Of course, there are a lot more laws in place against this sort of thing than there were in — say — the 1980s, but it’s still… Continue reading Hacking School Surveillance Systems
For institutions with high traffic, such as schools and movie theaters, it can be difficult to keep track of individuals moving in and out, especially without a critical mass of security. For schools especially, keeping track of student attendance and preventing kids from leaving campus in the middle of the …read more
Eric Butash and Mike Klein from Highlander Institute, join us on the show to talk about, what schools are doing to protect Student Data?, how do we teach our student the importance of good digital hygiene if we don’t have the proper education… Continue reading Digital Hygiene & The School System – Paul’s Security Weekly #606
Vol 08 Issue 108 September 2018 In This Issue Information Security, How Well is it Being Used to Protect Our Children at School? Social-Engineer News Upcoming classes As a member of the newsletter you have the option to OPT-IN for special offers… Continue reading Social-Engineer Newsletter Vol 08 – Issue 108
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for August 27, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was hosted by Tom… Continue reading The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – New TSA Body Scanners, Back to School Cybersecurity, Instagram Hacking
Video from at least four UK schools is being streamed live online, from outside pick-up points, corridors, playgrounds, and toilets. Continue reading Insecure CCTV feeds of kids at school are being streamed live online
Early Monday morning, the websites for about 800 US schools and school districts were hijacked Continue reading Hijackers deface 800 school websites with pro-Islamic State messages
Verizon’s Data Brief Digest 2017 describes an attack against an unnamed university by attackers who hacked a variety of IoT devices and had them spam network targets and slow them down: Analysis of the university firewall identified over 5,000 devices making hundreds of Domain Name Service (DNS) look-ups every 15 minutes, slowing the institution’s entire network and restricting access to… Continue reading IoT Attack Against a University Network
Microsoft’s latest update to their Intune cloud based management tool will now allow educational institutions easily manage shared computers.
It’s been a long wait, but our latest single board computer for review is finally here! The BBC micro:bit, given free to every seventh-grade British child, has landed at Hackaday courtesy of a friend in the world of education. It’s been a year of false starts and delays for the project, but schools started receiving shipments just before the Easter holidays, pupils should begin lessons with them any time now, and you might even be able to buy one for yourself by the time this article goes to press.
It’s a rather odd proposition, to give an ARM based single …read more
