Security News > 2020 > September > When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons

The teen is a junior at South Miami Senior High School in the Miami-Dade Public Schools system in Florida.

The school district said the kid admitted carrying out eight DDoS attacks since the school year began on August 31.

During these cyber-assaults, malicious network traffic was said to have disrupted at the on-premises networks of the school district itself and My School Online, the internet-hosted teaching platform the school district is using to deliver lessons while pupils work from home due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The district is not saying exactly how the teen was able to launch the DDoS attacks, other than to say a "Software program" was used to take down the networks and online class platform.

The district said these eight attacks were only a portion of more than a dozen DDoS strikes to have hit Miami-Dade schools in its first three days of online classes mid-pandemic.

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