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Hack to Prove Enrollment

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| Cyber Security, Data Forensics, Financial Aid, Fraud in Education, National Security

By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Computer information systems in the education sector remain susceptible to hacking by insiders and outsiders. Most often for financial gain, and for other times just to change a grade from “F” to “B.” Reasons why the incident at the University of Central Florida raises heightened alarms […]

Bank data for 40 million borrowers vulnerable

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| Cyber Security, Data Forensics

By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology In 2015, the House of Representatives harshly criticized the U.S. Department of Education for failure to safeguard confidential information stored in its information technology systems. What types of information are at stake? Confidential banking and income information of 40 million federal student loan borrowers. At the […]

4 Types of Fraud in Public Charter Schools

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| Data Forensics, Fraud in Education

By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology While the National Charter School Resource Center has determined that occurrences of outright fraud are second to financial insolvency, four types of fraud were used as case studies in its Toolkit for Charter School Governing Boards. They are: Asset Misappropriation Self Dealing and Conflicts of Interest […]

Botnets and Identity Theft in Education

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| Cyber Security, Data Forensics, Fraud in Education

By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology Talk to any one of the 21 million federal workers or contractors impacted by the hacking incident exposing personal records for potential criminal or national security activities and you’ll receive a collective sigh. However, did you know that the records of more than 75.2 million students and […]

23,000 student information hacked

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| Cyber Security, Data Forensics, Ethics and Corruption

By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology In August 2016, A data breach exposing the personal confidential information of 23,000 current, former students and staff occurred in the largest school district in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to the harm caused to the victims, this information is noteworthy because the incident was not […]

Early Warning System to Prevent Dropouts

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| Accountability, Data Forensics

By Clifford Eberhardt, Ed.D If I told you that, in many schools in this country, over half of the graduating class dropped out before graduating, you would think that statistic sounds incredible. But, it’s true! Not only is it true for many schools in this country, but also true for many school districts, cities, counties […]

Using Triangulation

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| Data Forensics

By Clifford Eberhardt, Ed.D In a recent conversation with one of my graduate students, who is also a teacher in the public school system, we discussed a student’s achievement problem she was having with one of her students, and I ended up giving her advice on a problem. She had concerns about why a certain […]