FCPS and Blackboard reported to be hacked by MAZE?

[Anonymous]

This is happening all over. Just 2 weeks ago, I got an email from my university (large land grant state U) that it had been hacked and paid a ransom.

It's only going to happen more and more. We need more national security.

[Anonymous]

FCPS needs to inform us what type of ransomware malware, if any student laptops are infected, and what mitigation strategies are currently in place for the fcps laptops that we have connected to our home networks. We need more specific information on this malware. The information provided thus far is very vague and high level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it FCPS servers that were attacked? Or BBC? If FCPS only, know the info being taken is bad, but means kids can still go and use all the school programs right because those are other companies, right? So not like those cannot or should not be used?

Records posted all came from inside FCPS, I believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People posting behind anonymous cover. I wish this site is not allowing this. Too easy. Maybe half these posting are troll (or bot). Including this post as this is anonymous too! ........

Nothing is really anonymous to the people that matter. Surely you know that.

+1 Also, the PP assumes that a username can be trusted info.

[Anonymous]

DH are having a disagreement about this. Should the kids continue using the FCPS issued laptops? We have personal devices and they would not need to buy anything. They are less likely to go on YouTube during class on the FCPS laptops but one of us is worried about this and attack if it could be a possible threat to our house. The other thinks this is paranoia. WWYD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH are having a disagreement about this. Should the kids continue using the FCPS issued laptops? We have personal devices and they would not need to buy anything. They are less likely to go on YouTube during class on the FCPS laptops but one of us is worried about this and attack if it could be a possible threat to our house. The other thinks this is paranoia. WWYD

Read more about this. Read the cited articles.

Then, when you have more understanding of what happened, have your discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taxpayers pumped an extra $30 million into DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency last year, and these are the results we get. Fire Chad Wolf!

What if we had spent billions on cybersecurity instead of a wall?

We have spend billions on cybersecurity.

Please keep up.

So if it is not a lack of resources then it must be mismanagement by the answerable federal leaders: Wolf, Ratcliffe, Esper, etc.

Please conjugate.

At this point we don't know if anyone is at fault, aside from the hackers. Just by the nature of the game, we are often a step behind cyber criminals. Cyber security is everyone's job, not just your CIO, security officials, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH are having a disagreement about this. Should the kids continue using the FCPS issued laptops? We have personal devices and they would not need to buy anything. They are less likely to go on YouTube during class on the FCPS laptops but one of us is worried about this and attack if it could be a possible threat to our house. The other thinks this is paranoia. WWYD

It's certainly a threat. How much so is hard to tell since FCPS is keeping the details secret.

Typically the malware enters through an idiot clicking on an unknown attachment. If the idiot is a standard user, the malware is fairly easy to contain. If the idiot has a privileged access, it can move about and infest many more parts of the network. So if the vector was a student, probably not a big deal. If it was a teacher it would be much bigger. If an admin or IT person they need be real aggressive in cleaning it up.

If you trust FCPS IT and assume they have it contained, it's probably OK to keep using your own device. If not, I'd move to theirs to be safe(er).

Certainly time to change your password and practice very good cyber hygiene at least.