{"id":23253,"date":"2019-10-02T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=23253"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:06:51","slug":"anus-student-data-breached-by-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/anus-student-data-breached-by-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"ANU\u2019s student data breached by wily hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The student\u2019s data network at the <\/b>Australian National University or ANU<\/b><\/a> was recently attacked by hackers who depicted substantial expertise.\u00a0<\/b>
\nANU\u2019s fraternity was shocked by the hackers\u2019 high prowess even security experts were marvelled.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAccording to Brian Schmidt, ANU\u2019s vice-chancellor, the hacking could be likened to a diamond heist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ANU\u2019s hacked by experts<\/b><\/h2>\n

It is speculated that the hackers comprised of between five (5) and fifteen (15) people who worked tirelessly to penetrate the ANU\u2019s student data system. It is believed that they worked for a couple of months on this damaging mission.<\/span>
\nProf Schmidt asserted that the hackers dismantled their operations so perfectly that their tracks were undetected for nearly six weeks after penetrating the system.\u00a0<\/b>
\nHe, therefore, described the hack as state-of-the-art as it was orchestrated by persons who were on top of their game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ANU\u2019s email network attacked<\/b><\/h2>\n

The hackers were able to penetrate the ANU system by sending an email containing a virus to a staff member of the university.
\nThe level of sophistication was so intensive that the staff member was only required to preview the email, other than opening it or clicking a link.\u00a0<\/b>
\nProf Schmidt asserted that up to date, no evidence has been availed about personal data being misused. Nevertheless, the situation was being continuously monitored.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSome of the university sectors hit by the attack included student administration, financial management, and human resources.\u00a0<\/span>
\nANU has been making substantial efforts to beef up cybersecurity so that future attacks can be deterred. Moreover, reasonable emphases have been laid on training.\u00a0<\/span>
\nOn the other hand, <\/span>in a current visit to India, Fiona Docherty, vice president of external affairs at <\/span>Sydney\u2019s University of New South Wales (UNSW)<\/span><\/a>, mapped out education overdrive plans for Indian students at this institution.<\/span>
\nNotably, potential learners and parents had the opportunity to interact with the teaching staff as well as get first-hand information about educational opportunities, visa procedures, admissions, and recruitment chances.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The student\u2019s data network at the Australian National University or ANU was recently attacked by hackers who depicted substantial expertise.\u00a0 ANU\u2019s fraternity was shocked by the hackers\u2019 high prowess even security experts were marvelled.\u00a0 According to Brian Schmidt, ANU\u2019s vice-chancellor, the hacking could be likened to a diamond heist.\u00a0 ANU\u2019s hacked by experts It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}