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Hack to #school: #Parents told to keep their little #scriptkiddies in line
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) looked at 215 data breach cases at #schools between Jan 2022 - Aug 2024, noting that 57% were caused by students, and almost a third (30%) were caused by stolen login details.
In the case of stolen logins – either by #students seeing others input credentials and remembering or simply reading them noted down on paper – #pupils were behind 97% of these attacks.
theregister.com/2025/09/12/stu

The Register · Hack to school: Parents told to keep their little script kiddies in lineBy Connor Jones

While procrastinating something, I noticed a wave of script kiddie traffic with a browser ID string matching a Github hosted "security scanning" project, but one without contact info. #github #security #scriptkiddies

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@Codeberg In later issue titles (not shown) they’ve foregone the AI and just default to the same racial slur. (So you know what kind of lowlife scum are behind the attack.) It’s not just my repositories either so I wouldn’t visit Codeberg until this is dealt with if I were you unless you want to subject yourself to that crap. I’ll let you all know when it’s been dealt with.

#codeberg#AI#spam