A security firm hired by an Australian university has found vulnerabilities in Blackboard Learn, the popular course-management software, the Australian computer-security publication SC Magazine reported on Friday.
The company, Securus Global, first told Blackboard of the problems in mid-July. SC Magazine cited unnamed sources who said the company’s employees had used a variety of exploits to gain access to student grades, records, and information. The magazine did not disclose the name of the university that hired Securus.
Blackboard officials acknowledged that they had been notified of four previously unknown security holes in their software that they planned to fix by the end of the year. But they said no student information had been compromised and that the “fear-mongering” SC Magazine article had exaggerated the severity of the problems.
Twelve of the 16 issues that Securus identified were either already known to Blackboard, impossible to replicate, or due to improperly configured security settings by the university, officials said.
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