[Year 12 IT Apps] Hacking and backups

[ken price]

Hi Donna

I read your email about this a few days back and I was rather intrigued -
from memory it was info provided by DistributeIT to its customers and the
public explainng the situation and also a number of forum links discussing
the implications etc.

At the time I wondered why something this significant hadn't hit the
mainstream press (or at least I had'nt heard about it from the mainstream
press). Now it has.

It often happens - events take on a different significance when they hit the
mainstream newspapers ,or when they pop up on a 7:30 family current affairs
TV program... (eg much of the work done by teachers about cyberbullying was
almost ignored until the issue hit the TV).

Please don't stop sharing things as they happen - it's always good to be
ahead of the curve!.

Ken

Ken Price
Tasmanian eSchool
http://www.schools.education.tas.gov.au/tasmanianeschool/




On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au> wrote:

>
> Perhaps you lot just ignore all my emails...
> but my email a few days back was about this incident.
>
> subject - DistributeIT disaster
>
> *miffed*
>
> - D.
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 13:04 +1000, Mark KELLY wrote:
> > Wow, that's a monumental SNAFU!
> >
> > On 23 June 2011 11:04, Paul Golub <golupau at santamaria.vic.edu.au>
> > wrote:
> >         Dear All,
> >
> >         another article on hacking and the importance of back ups.
> >         Good for U4O2.
> >
> >
> http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/4800-aussie-sites-evaporate-after-hack-20110621-1gd1h.html
> >
> >         Paul Golub
> >         Santa Maria College
> >         50 Separation Street
> >         Northcote 3070
> >         Ph: 9488 1674
> >
> >
> >
>
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