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Cyber Vandals Take Down School Sites

In the year 2010, Louisiana schools and a school board websites have been taken down by cyber vandals. It is clear that it is “cyber vandalism” for according to The Advocate, visitors of Livingston Parish School Board website and several Livingston Parish schools received a message:

“HACKED By ch0unix - WE ARE CRAZY TURKS”

It is also reported that sensitive information of employee information and students’ grades and attendance records, had not been compromised. Nonetheless, parents of students were not able to access the site. Further investigation was made and it has been found that it had attacked more than 100 other sites.

In my opinion, the school should take more precautions to detect cyber vandalism from happening for example building the better firewall and have time to time screening. In addition, they should have a backup plan and emergency data storage. It can be seen that the operations of the schools have come to a hold when this incident happen. The schools will then have to reassure parents that this will not do any harm to their children’s education, at the same time build back their image or reputation.

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