I would venture to way that this article is severely over-stating the extent of the break-in.... assuming for a moment that the system compromised really did have the 30,000 SSN's removed from it.... by itself JUST the social security numbers represents approximately 264mb of data, if we just include names in this the data size can jump into around a gig, but the e-mail stated that the server contained the "names, photos, social security numbers and G numbers" of the students..... let's just venture to say that the hackers got greedy (an theat they didn't take the time to compromise the database program to spit out a file with just the SSNs) and took the whole thing...... we're talking with pictures easily 20+ gigs of data.... I could understand how a network admin might miss a network teansfer of maybe 100mb... but any transfer over a gig is gonna get noticed well before the routine check that their e-mail sent to students refrences....
In clonclusion... I think they're jumpingthe gun a bit here before they have all the facts in.
this may seem all to simple... but 99.9% of wireless routers have ports on them for a wired connection.... connect via the hard link, change your settings to a clearer channel, disconnect the hard line... a viola
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I would venture to way that this article is severely over-stating the extent of the break-in.... assuming for a moment that the system compromised really did have the 30,000 SSN's removed from it.... by itself JUST the social security numbers represents approximately 264mb of data, if we just include names in this the data size can jump into around a gig, but the e-mail stated that the server contained the "names, photos, social security numbers and G numbers" of the students..... let's just venture to say that the hackers got greedy (an theat they didn't take the time to compromise the database program to spit out a file with just the SSNs) and took the whole thing...... we're talking with pictures easily 20+ gigs of data.... I could understand how a network admin might miss a network teansfer of maybe 100mb... but any transfer over a gig is gonna get noticed well before the routine check that their e-mail sent to students refrences.... In clonclusion... I think they're jumpingthe gun a bit here before they have all the facts in.
this may seem all to simple... but 99.9% of wireless routers have ports on them for a wired connection.... connect via the hard link, change your settings to a clearer channel, disconnect the hard line... a viola