CYBERATTACK TARGETS HIGH SCHOOL LITERACY TEST

The Ontario agency tasked with

administering the first online literacy test to tens of thousands of high school students in the province last week says it was forced to pull the plug by an “intentional, malicious and sustained” cyberattack. The Education Quality and Accountability Office says the network hosting the “voluntary” online test was targeted by an “extremely large volume of traffic from a vast set of IP addresses around the globe.” It says the impact was to block legitimate users from accessing the test.