When Impero attracted media coverage for its anti-radicalisation services, he decided to probe the technology, uncovering and publicly reporting on the lack of quality authentication on 13 June. Also, there's the threat of someone inside such a school (a student perhaps) exploiting the vulnerability,” he added.Ĭlark says he initially became interested in the technology in January at the BETT education tech conference in London, when he asked the company about its security and received no information back. “Given that schools have been affected with malware like CryptoLocker in the past, exploit kits or spearphishing could be a way for an attacker to get into a school network. The researcher told FORBES that if an attacker can gain access to the Impero server, all connected machines “are completely open to compromise”, due to the apparent lack of decent authentication. Its headquarters are in Nottingham, UK, but it also has a base in Portland, Oregon to support its growing business in the US. The specific technology in question was created by UK firm Impero Software. It’s supposed to prevent the terror threat from growing, but in a predictably ironic twist, it’s possible for anyone with malicious intent to hack one iteration of that technology from anywhere in the planet, infect school computers and hoover up all information on those systems, including personal data of pupils. It dovetails nicely with the US and UK governments’ Islamic-terrorist narrative, which seeks to justify increasing surveillance and control, even at grassroots level. It’s "anti-radicalisation" software, designed to send warning flags to teachers when any youngsters look at certain material on the web, in particular anything to do with extremist Islam. There’s a burgeoning area of educational technology, one that has an Orwellian whiff about it.
0 kommentar(er)
