High School Suspends Student Hackers Who Changed Grades
from the surprised-this-doesn't-happen-more-often dept
I'm actually surprised that we don't see many more stories like this one. A group of students have been suspended for hacking into their school's computer system and changing their grades. It sounds as though many school districts aren't that careful in securing their networks, so you would expect this sort of story to be popping up all the time. I'm wondering it's happening and schools aren't figuring it out - or if they're just keeping it quiet when they discover it happening.
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If the systems were like my old High school....
Grade entry is only able to be done during a certain window. Once a record is written, the only way to change it was to be at the system console(s).
So, the only way to 'spoof' the system was to insert something inbetween the enrty computer and the main computer.
Paper records still exist and can be checked. I know they were in my case...and when I was asked about what I knew about the board of Ed computers, I told them the above, the 8 different passwords I knew (gems like pencil) the normally scheduled down times. I was told to stop being so nosy.
Oh the joys of dumpster diving and getting the output of the teletype machine!
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Schools try to keep it as quiet as possible...
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