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Protect Your School System from Malware Attacks: Houston County's Security Measures
Jun 21, 2024
Protect Your School System from Malware Attacks: Houston County's Security Measures
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tonight an investigation is underway in
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the IT department of a local school
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system the investigation started after
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staff was told about a possible malware
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attack and this is not the first time
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the school system has been at the center
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of ransomware wdhn Robert Smith has the
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story all new at 6 the Houston County
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school system is beefing up their
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technology security measures after a
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recent scare of a possible malware
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attack a scare they don't take lightly
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after being a victim in 2019 during a
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routine audit from the Houston County
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School's informational Tech technology
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department earlier this week they
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noticed some unusual irregularities
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detected in the network system prompting
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them to shut down and investigate saw
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some things that concerned him with uh
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some attempts to log in uh in certain
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areas that you know until they actually
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get into an admin account they can't
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take over your system and so again they
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were attempting to try to move up that
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chain but the hack attempt was
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unsuccessful however white says if the
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hacker got into the network nothing
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valuable would have been at risk the
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information that they could have gotten
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here would have been more uh you know
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academic you know emails different
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things like that as far as Personnel
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data as far as student data they would
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not have had access to any of that
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that's because they moved Personnel data
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and financial information to another
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allsite after the July 2019 Cyber attack
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on the school system causing them to
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delay the start of school as you know
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hackers will continue to try to learn
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new ways of getting into your system and
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so we have to constantly update our
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security while the school system has
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made strides to enhance Security on the
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network System since 2019 he says they
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will continue to isolate the network but
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they are working with clear winds
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Technologies to strengthen their
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measures multiactor authentification
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going in uh we're going to kind of
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upgrade that a little bit and so uh we
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are taking some some normal steps to
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hopefully prevent anything from
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happening white says it's hard to catch
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hackers with this being so common so
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he's unsure if someone would be
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prosecuted however he did say this is
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sad they have to take drastic measures
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to keep students and teachers
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information safe in Houston County
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Robert Smith wdhn news for the Wier
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grass
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