Sept. 18–Just because the cyber attack on Florida’s online exams was routed through 29,000 computers scattered across the globe and investigators closed the case without an arrest doesn’t mean it was a random assault.
Disrupting the debut of new statewide tests last spring simply required a target Internet address and someone with cash — by some accounts as little as $50 a day — to deploy an army of zombie computers to do the work.
Perhaps the hardest bit could be hiring the commander of such an army, said David Shepherd, a senior cyber security consultant with the Virginia-based LMI Government Consulting.
