According to Newsweek, the school district said there are “strong leads” in the case. However, the investigation is ongoing. Further details about the scam have yet to provided.
Wendt’s point-of-view about this type of cyberattack is that educational and government institutions must do more in order to mitigate the risk of future scams of a similar nature.
Greg Wendt is Executive Director of Texas (U.S.), based Appsian, a company that specializes in enterprise resource management data security. The company has many customers in education (such as Cornell University and PennState) plus several in state and local government (such as the State of Ohio and Lane County Oregon).
Discussing the attack on the Texan education network, Wendt explains that: “Phishing attacks such as this are sophisticated, meticulously planned, and strategically executed leaving very little time to react. It is unfortunate that in this case the phishing…
