JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A New Jersey school official says four students charged with illegally trying to change grades used keylogging software to hack into the school district’s computer system. Keystroke logging, or keylogging, software covertly tracks which keys are struck on a computer keyboard and it is most often used to steal passwords. The Jersey Journal reports the four Dickinson High School students, ages 15 to 17, allegedly used the software to gain teachers’ log-on information, then changed their own grades […]
