Re: hacking into a registrar's system

["Brian K. Dore'" <bkd () LOUISIANA EDU>]

Not exactly hacking, but a serious security problem nonetheless:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43281-2004Apr1?language=printer

Brian

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> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Bradner
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:04 AM
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> 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
>
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