• Alaska phishing pupils take over classroom computers
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[QUOTE] [B]A group of pupils at a middle school in Alaska took control of their classroom computers after phishing for administrator privileges.[/B] They asked teachers at Schoenbar Middle School, for 12 to 13-year-olds, to enter admin names and passwords to accept a false software update, according to reports. [/QUOTE] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22398484[/URL]
Smart.
Shit man, those kids are smart.
This brings back memories! back when I was in year 8 our IT class formulated a plot to get the admin passwords using a simple keystroke recorder. We got the Admin logins and we were able to go in look at future tests and peoples grades, we may have even been able to change them, but we didnt try we used our new powers mostly to play video games. We got caught obviously and ended up with detention for an entire term and the guy who got the program and stole the logins almost got expelled.
Oh my god I keylogged the admin password at my school as well. Good days
I think everyone tried this at one point.
And all I did was try to organize a Doom deathmatch.
[QUOTE=Zero Hour;40513808]This brings back memories! back when I was in year 8 our IT class formulated a plot to get the admin passwords using a simple keystroke recorder. We got the Admin logins and we were able to go in look at future tests and peoples grades, we may have even been able to change them, but we didnt try we used our new powers mostly to play video games. We got caught obviously and ended up with detention for an entire term and the guy who got the program and stole the logins almost got expelled.[/QUOTE]How did they catch you if you son't mind me asking? I remember using a disk to change the local Admin password. Yeah, 2002 disks were still used.
At my school, we had to enter our usernames and password in the browser (firefox) to gain internet access. We told a teacher that our password didn't work, so they entered theirs, and didn't notice that firefox asked to save the password. So when the teacher went away, we clicked on yes, and looked up the password in the settings. Good times.
at my school noone did this because we almost never used our computers :c
I can boot in to Linux, so I have a ton of access to the network and software anyways :v:
I changed the login screen graphic design to an old man on every computer... the computer administrator had no idea how I did it or what was going on and in a panic he reformatted every computer in school when all I did was edit a picture file in windows directory.
Wow, it's almost as if IT teachers don't know shit about computers
[QUOTE=Zero Hour;40513808]This brings back memories! back when I was in year 8 our IT class formulated a plot to get the admin passwords using a simple keystroke recorder. We got the Admin logins and we were able to go in look at future tests and peoples grades, we may have even been able to change them, but we didnt try we used our new powers mostly to play video games. We got caught obviously and ended up with detention for an entire term and the guy who got the program and stole the logins almost got expelled.[/QUOTE] Changing your grades is one of those things in school that if you get caught (and you are very likely to be), you can fuck over your whole future. [QUOTE=RoboChimp;40514046]How did they catch you if you son't mind me asking? I remember using a disk to change the local Admin password. Yeah, 2002 disks were still used.[/QUOTE] I worked in my school's library for most of senior high school, and we were still giving out floppy disks for people to transport their documents home/to school. That was up until 2007.
[QUOTE=lintz;40513858]I think everyone tried this at one point.[/QUOTE] At school I never tried or even thought about doing it, mainly because they made it clear of the punishments that could result in doing so.
In high school one of my mates just watched the admin type her user and password over her shoulder. We could access anyone's in the school's work from her account, there was also one computer in the music department school that had no form of web blocking (we believe this was the only PC in the school), you could access anything you wanted. Hilarity ensued. For a few days before the password change
It's also just possible to reset the default admin-accounts with UltimateBootCD, good times with that also.
Never did anything terrible, we could've deleted people work or whatever but we just added pictures of nude ladies into the work of people we were in classes with. Bit of harmless mischief I'll never forget the time when someone printed their work and I just heard "What the fuck?" and in the middle of it was a picture of a giant fibreglass penis. He'd opened the document and just hit print [editline]3rd May 2013[/editline] They blocked certain software from running as well at one point, so you couldn't play flash games but people worked out they could run them fine in Excel
[QUOTE]"I don't believe any hardware issues were compromised," Casey Robinson, the principal, told community radio station Ketchikan FM. [/QUOTE] what is he even talking about
I used a portable form of 7zip to snoop around through network files. I once had a plan to shove a keylogger on a bunch of computers and sell people's passwords but I decided thag that was highly illegal and not a good idea at all.
I found one of the teachers logins (only two teachers got full admin access on our network, this login is one of them.) on an ftp server. It was used for some kind of test file they had made but never used and it seems they had forgotten to delete it.
We didn't have to do this. There was a script saved locally with the domain admins pw in it. [sp]we went to an IT school...[/sp]
Back in high school, every week or so I changed the image displayed above the login. I got the best reaction with: [t]http://www.andysowards.com/blog/assets/he-s-watching-you-war-propaganda.jpg[/t]
Two of my teachers independently told me the admin password for the IT rooms. I didn't ask. My IT teacher (network admin) uploaded the whole Excel file with all student passwords of the grade for the moodle platform to a network share instead of printing the relevant ones and giving out snippets like everyone was supposed to. This was before flash drives were banned because of constant virus infections. There was also an "independent-studies-centre" (just a few rooms) with laptops that got locked down after people kept installing MMOs and ICQ and forgot to log out :v:
i had an admin pass for the server given in trust by the main IT teacher one day the maths teacher started to have a go at me got onto the server and force changed her wallpaper to dragon porn when she put on the projector her face was priceless.
There was some test-grading software on our schools network drive, so I changed its name from like "gradingsoftware.exe" to "a.exe", and then put in my own fork bomb and named it "gradingsoftware.exe" so when teacher clicked the shortcut to take them to their software it ran the fork bomb. This was during SOL week. A teacher clicked it, and it crashed the network drive so everybody taking the french SOL couldn't save their scores and got to retake it after already having seen it. I never got caught cause my school had an account simply called "DVD" that has access to some stupid dvd playing software that teachers use because they're too dumb to use media player or VLC. So I logged in with that so everything would lead back to an anonymous public account.
at my school we had these [img]http://files.myopera.com/andronic/albums/621375/thumbs/1Apple%20Power%20PC%207500.jpg_thumb.jpg[/img] I don't even know if they had admin logins. I'm old
I spent at least SOME time at every school (3 or 4, i moved a lot) since middle school acquiring the WiFi password(s), and selling it to other students :v: It was pretty awesome when i got on to the faculty-only network that had no internet filter
Make a bootable USB, boot linux, there ya go, practically admin access.
Our school computers are open. V:v:V
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