Module 6 Progress Report

This week I will have worked a full 40 hours, bringing my quarter total to 240 hours. This week started slow and slowly had things come up here and there. I worked a little bit on some server rostering stuff, contacting our Class-Link rep to help remove duplicate students and make sure the rostering is correct so students can sign into their portal to have SSO for all their curriculums programs like McGraw hill and Project Lead the Way. 

Before winter break, we had a middle school student being malicious with the school network and computers, therefor his technology privileges were taken away and it became an admin problem. It was a whole thing I was assigned to work on and discover what he was doing, how he was doing it etc.. Most recently he was given his technology privileges back and they are again up to no good.  This time taking things a bit further  by using his share point to send bat and other script files to students and teachers, letting them gain remote access to who ever opens the links computer. He has been known to use a password "recovery" tool to reactivate the defaultuser0 account built into windows to get local admin rights completely bypassing our domain security (I was the one to discover this along with many other things no one knew they were doing back in December). He also has a ton of other malicious tools on his personal thumb drive that contained over 50 programs that looked to be downloaded from an online repository. They also had a auto loader so that as soon as the drive was plugged in, it would execute some code and infect the device. Currently middle school admin are failing to do anything again so the problem will continue to happen. The student has strong potential to do more harm and they can do it when ever they want as they have the know and means to do it. 

So hopefully next week admin does something about this and this issues is taken care of at the root and not just treating symptoms.

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