Vulnerabilities in home schooling software
McAfee's security researchers have discovered four critical security holes in Netop Vision Pro, a software for advanced classroom management widely used in Germany. Software of this type has been used extensively by German schools since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to enable home schooling. The security flaws in the Netop software allow hackers to gain full control over the students' computers - and thus smuggle in ransomware, access private data or gain access to other accounts on the computer and local network. Lack of encryption, the fundamentally insecure design and ...