http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/11/02/15914046.html By Kate Dubinski QMI Agency November 2, 2010 LONDON, Ont. — It'll take the London region's public school board more than three weeks to fix a privacy breach created in about an hour - way too long for a basic security feature, says one technology specialist. London police criminally charged a 15-year-old self-described hacker with breaking into the Thames Valley District school board's website and exposing the passwords of 27,000 high school students on Oct. 23. It was the largest security breach in the board's history. Ordinarily, conviction on the four charges the youth faces could lead to as many as 10 years in prison, depending how the Crown proceeds. But the amount of time it's taking one of Ontario's largest school boards to encrypt passwords - standard operating procedure for most institutions, big and small - is raising some eyebrows. "Encrypting passwords is not rocket science. It's one of the most basic things you can do," said Shawn Adamsson, a London computer specialist who has worked with technology for more than 25 years. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Tue Nov 02 2010 - 23:10:56 PDT
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