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The school-age hackers are indicative of what's going on outside school, said Carol Barber Troskosky, chief technology officer for Erie 1 Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
"What happened in these districts is just typical of what is happening in society," she said."It's curious kids, and they're very skillful."
In each instance, the district detected the breach - sometimes with monitoring software - and followed a trail that led to the students.
The key to preventing and detecting computer breaches is training and awareness, Troskosky said.She oversees the Western New York Regional Information Center, which provides information and technology services to 105 school districts and their 90,000 computers, printers and other cyber devices.
She said that some of the easiest measures to prevent unauthorized access are to make sure workstations are in public areas with supervision available and that passwords and user names are kept personal and not posted on sticky notes or kept in visible places.
"The technology coordinators do get together on a regular basis, and they share best practices," she said.
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"Our challenge as educators is to provide that environment yet provide some security around it," Troskosky said.
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