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Data has been stolen from millions of current and former students who took standardized testing through Educational Testing Service (ETS), in the state of California. A recent article said that 5.7 million students are enrolled in the state’s public schools, but the attack reached even more as it accessed information from students as far back as 2006.
Early October, investigators discovered that a login credential had been stolen earlier this year. Several times since May, an unauthorized user was found to access and copy the student information files.
Experts have pointed out that this attack reveals a serious weakness in the way student data is being stored. They ask why one stolen credential could lead to an attack of this size, and how existing security measures failed to back up the credential when compromised.
An ETS spokesperson stated that stronger security methods are going into effect and will be explored further.
Your passwords are not strong enough. At Green Rocket Security, we offer MFA which is necessary for protecting your networks and systems. Visit our website to learn more.
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Within the same week, a Massachusetts city and an external school district were both compromised in security breaches, according to Boston.com. Springfield Public Schools was forced to temporarily pause operations
Green Rocket Security has added RadSec to the supported protocols. RadSec is a secure extension of RADIUS that uses TCP and TLS to encrypt all RADIUS communications, providing stronger protection
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Thousands of school districts in the US use the software system, Power School, as a tool to manage student and teacher information. Over 60 million students have data stored with this software. This past December the system was hacked causing disruption for many school districts across the country.
Using stolen credentials a hacker or group was able to access large amounts of personal information through the customer support portal.
At least two anonymous school districts have confirmed that even historical data has been stolen from former students, as well as current.
TechCrunch states that, “PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed ‘all’ of their historical student and teacher data.” From some commentary by RootED’s executive chief, the article continues that, “some school districts are reporting the number of affected students in the range of four- to 10-times higher than the number of actively enrolled students in their district.”
Another source claimed that data has been stolen even prior to December. On top of this, it has been found that school districts which only formerly used PowerSchool have also been affected by this breach.
Some accusations claim that PowerSchool failed to implement basic software protection, such as multi-factor authentication. When TechCrunch reached out to a PowerSchool spokesperson, she answered that their software did have MFA but did not make any further comment.
The scale of this data breach remains unknown, although multiple school districts have disclosed their effects, and more continue to do so as well.
To prevent such disaster, secure the data under your charge with multi-factor authentication. Contact us to find out how GreenRADIUS can provide this safety for your customers and your team.
A large-scale cyber-attack was confirmed earlier this week that includes breaches into United States federal government agencies. On Monday, SolarWinds confirmed that Orion – its flagship network management software – had served as the unwitting...
Weak passwords and cross-site password reuse are two of the most common ways to break into a WordPress installation. Fortunately, WordPress plugins are able to augment the system’s default authentication. Our GreenRADIUS WordPress Authentication Plugin...
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We have released a new Windows Logon MFA agent version (v2.9.21-N). If your GreenRADIUS license enables the U2F Module (used for Windows Logon MFA), and you have not received the new Windows Logon MFA agent via email, please contact us.
At Green Rocket Security, we’re constantly striving to improve our product to meet and exceed users’ expectations. Here are some highlights from 2025’s product developments: Thank you to all our customers and partners. We look...
We are excited to announce the release of GreenRADIUS v4.0! With this release, GreenRADIUS becomes even more versatile to meet various customer requirements. Among the most important changes are the following: FIPS 140-2 compliance Containerization...
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Over 30 water systems in Minnesota were targeted by a series of cyberattacks this past July. These water systems and operations were compromised, temporarily leaving some cities with a limited supply of water.
The source of these attacks have not been confirmed, but investigators say the evidence points towards Iranian hackers, due to their history of going after water systems in the United States and geopolitical motives.
An article from AP News points out, ”…local water plants or healthcare facilities often lack the funds and know-how to install the latest software patches or take other security steps. That has made them a favorite target both because of the relative ease of penetrating them and because of the panic such disruptions can cause.”
Unprotected systems, such as these, are the most susceptible to cybercriminals. Green Rocket Security offers multi-factor authentication which can protect your computers and networks. Check out our website for more information.
The recent discovery of the Blast-RADIUS vulnerability (CVE-2024-3596) poses a significant risk to networks worldwide. This flaw in the RADIUS authentication protocol can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access, launch denial-of-service attacks, and...
SUMMARY This notice covers CVE-2024-6387 OpenSSH vulnerability (nicknamed “regreSSHion”) and its impact related to GreenRADIUS. GreenRADIUS is accessed using SSH from an internal (on prem) origin and therefore normally protected by an external firewall. This...
New Threats
Are you using a password manager to securely store all of your passwords? The use of password managers has become very common. It allows people to keep track of a variety of passwords, which are unique enough to protect their networks.
Although the purpose of this is to keep your passwords together in a secure manner, cases have been found in which these password managers have mistakenly leaked credentials. This flaw in the system has been named “AutoSpill”.
TechSpot recently reported that the way this happens is, “When the password manager is prompted to fill in the credentials, the expected behavior is that it’ll autofill them in the right fields of the WebView interface. However, it will sometimes expose your credentials to the base app instead.”
In this case there is no phishing or trick that the user can avoid, the mistake is automatically done through the password manager itself.
Having multi-factor authentication protects your network against the AutoSpill glitch or in any situation where your password has been exposed. This is because the password itself is not sufficient to gain access to your sensitive information.
Green Rocket Security specializes in multi-factor authentication by which users can have access to an Authenticator app or a physical token, such as a YubiKey. If you are looking for network protection beyond just your passwords, contact us to learn more about our GreenRADIUS solution.
Summary CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 (Log4Shell or LogJam) are both zero-day vulnerabilities in the widely used Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Since it is widely used in many popular products, customers have contacted Green Rocket Security...
LokiBot Trojan Malware (a.k.a LukiBot, Lokibot, Loki PWS, and Loki-bot) is active again stealing sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other credentials. It was first discovered in 2015 and has been used...