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Re: hacking into a registrar's system
From: "Brian K. Dore'" <bkd () LOUISIANA EDU>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:28:41 -0500
Not exactly hacking, but a serious security problem nonetheless: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43281-2004Apr1?language=printer Brian
-----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Bradner Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:04 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: hacking into a registrar's system I just got a call from ABC news who wanted to know if I knew of any cases where someone hacked into a registrar's system to insert a record to indicate that somone went to the school sometime in the past (resume padding) I said that I thought that inserting such a record for sometime in the past could be quite hard (since it would likely in an archive section) I said I could see how someone (at least in theory) could change an existing grade but more than that would be very had indeed 1/ do you know of any case where someting like thjis happened? 2/ how about cases where someone in the registrar's office changing grades (I seem to remember seeing some news stories on this type of things) Scott ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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