It all starts with an announcement on the dark net, this digital space where we can buy what we want (drugs, weapons, passwords, lists …) remaining anonymous and in the most illegal total. A hacker offers against a bitcoin (or 600 euros) a computer program intended to hack the server of their choice to revise upward one of his notes … A real threat to national education?
two weeks of results from the tray, the ministry is reassuring: “the note reporting process for national examinations are highly controlled.” According to them, no compromise over the Internet has been found to date on their information “examinations and competitions” system.
A statement that does not surprise Coatpont Tanguy, Managing Director of Kaspersky Lab , private company of security of information systems. “It seems difficult to do technically,” he says, recalling that it is already difficult to access the net dark for a normal user.
“To disrupt the proper functioning of examinations or bringing down the site of a school, it is possible. But we have never heard of notes piracy, it remains in the order of fantasy. ” He said the National Education server is well protected because managed by the National Agency of computer security, which depends on the Prime Minister. This specialist of antivirus, antispyware and other security tools is not really worried.
“An old scam as the world”
According to Tanguy Coatpont, this ad is more a scam than anything. “The crafty trying to make money on the backs of students. Pure scam and hard: as the payment is made in bitcoin dark on the net, it is impossible to trace it, leaving the ‘alleged’ hacker in total impunity “, if he rebelled
“But above all, this is not a real threat for the moment because the hacker groups have no economic incentive to hack ferry notes!” insists Tanguy Coatpont. The investment to break into the servers of Education is too important and not really profitable. “Cybercriminals go where there is money so they instead attack the private companies.”
Other sites are not immune
” we must distinguish the information system “review and contest” the ministry of implementation used for continuous monitoring, “said Education. Tanguy de Coapont says these platforms managed by institutions are less protected and sometimes stolen by or students.
“A computer system is ever 100% secure, institutions will digitize with information systems increasingly connected … they are more vulnerable, “analyzes the CEO of Kaspersky Lab.
” in recent years, everyone has the opportunity to buy kits ready to temporarily fall websites for a pittance, in the order of several tens of euros. ” This often results in changing the home page of a site by a hacker who wants to be publicized and show that it could enter the system of a particular school.
These programs are available on the internet common and tend to be less expensive, because of the competition between hacker groups.
a cybersecurity too low
and if national Education and institutions of the sites are aware of the risk, there is still a gap with their investments in security. According to Kaspersky Lab, only 50 people are responsible for computer security for 1,000 hospitals in France, an extremely low ratio would be similar in Education.
“The passwords, too, are not always robust enough “critical Tanguy Coapont. But unless you are a genius hacker, you have to continue to review …
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