Oxford Students Face Suspension For Exposing Security Flaws

According to a story published in the UK publication The Register, two Oxford University students broke into the school's network using a program easily obtainable from a search on Google. Once inside the school's network, the students had access to passwords for student e-mail addresses and other sensitive information. The students were also able to view the closed-circuit television feeds from one of the colleges and could have shut them down at any time. After breaking into the network, one of the students who was the editor of the school paper, Oxford Student, published an account of security holes in the network and blamed them on an effort to cut costs at the university. The students face a maximum penalty of a fine of 500 pounds sterling and a year's suspension.