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Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources?
From: Willis Marti <wmarti () TAMU EDU>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:01:25 -0600
Recently we had an adventurous student who decided that he would try some common web based exploits against our intranet website (which is available on the internet). He came to us and informed us what he found. Through the conversation, it was revealed that this action was intentional. He was let off knowing that we had other options but were not going to pursue them. That was with the understanding that he would not continue his activities. Well, activities, though different now, continue. These second activities apparently caused an outage of a public website. How are these type of situations handled at your university?
Like you, first time would have been stern lecture plus pointing out illegal nature (depending on State law) or rules violations. Second time is referral to Student Judicial Services. Depending on exact circumstances (e.g., was it a third party's web site), explanation to the affected web site. Willis Marti Associate Director for Networking Computing & Information Services Texas A&M University
Current thread:
- How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Ben Spencer (Nov 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Michael Cole (Nov 11)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Sadler, Connie (Nov 11)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Bob Ono (Nov 11)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Jeff Kell (Nov 11)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Willis Marti (Nov 12)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Samuel Young (Nov 12)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Theresa M Rowe (Nov 13)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? Russell Fulton (Nov 13)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? David Gillett (Nov 13)
- Re: How do you handle students who attempt to exploit internal resources? John C. A. Bambenek (Nov 13)