The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently issued a stark warning that the majority of insider cyber-attacks in UK schools are now perpetrated by students themselves. These are not sophisticated external hackers breaching firewalls from overseas, but children.
Sometimes as young as seven, students are logging in with stolen or guessed credentials, exploiting weak passwords, or simply finding login details carelessly left on scraps of paper. The consequences can be significant with outcomes such as personal data breaches, operational disruption, reputational damage and, most worryingly, the risk of setting young people on a path towards cyber criminality.
