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Final Year Student Of FUTA Suspended For Cyber Breach
A final year student of Federal University of technology, Afolabi Emmanuel from the department of food and nutrition has been suspended indefinitely by school authorities for hacking into the website of premium times new, an online news publication.
A statement by the institution Deputy Director Corporate Communication, Adegbenro Adebanjo in Akure said to describe the student’s action “as an act that constitutes misconduct and misuse of University IT infrastructure.
The letter of his suspension according to Adebanjo was dated August 5, 2020.
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He said that the University “received a complaint from Premium Times about a Denial of Service, DOS attack on its website between 28th and 29th February 2020 through a concerted vulnerability scanning by a person using IT infrastructure of the University.
“Acting on the complaint, the University management initiated an investigation and it was discovered that Emmanuel carried out the alleged act of misconduct using the login credentials of two members of staff, without authorization, to perpetrate the act.
“The Notification of Indefinite Suspension letter addressed to Emmanuel and his sponsors reads in part, ‘In the extant Student’s Handbook of Information, your action is misconduct to abuse the use of University IT Infrastructure.
“While still putting in place an arrangement to give you an opportunity to explain yourself, you are hereby placed on an indefinite suspension retroactively from 18th March 2020.”
In effect, Emmanuel should not be found anywhere in or near the precincts of the Federal University throughout the period of his indefinite suspension.
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