#techlets

Last month, the Palo Alto school district initiated an inquiry after it was discovered that grades in its database had been changed. Despite the discovery -- which led school officials straight to the guilty party -- it's difficult to say how, exactly, the student managed the social engineering-cum-hack exploit. Today's edition of the Palo Alto Daily Post called the hacking "sophisticated." Could anyone expect less in Silicon Valley? It's a little surprising that only now are measures being put in place to detect unusual activity.