Students in Colorado hacked their school's computer system to change their grades.
Students hack into school system, change grades - Topix
The question is why would kids that are smart enough to hack the school's computer system need to change their grades?
According to a recent report on Data Breaches by Verizon, you do not have to be very smart to be a hacker. The report found that the majority of the hackers used relatively simple methods to breach most systems 97% of the time.
The other question is just how up-to-date is the school's cyber security compliance policies?
Alarming discovery- it does make you wonder what else could be affected by people with some know-how and motive
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