Lab Vandalism

Our University is currently on a short 10 day holiday. I have been using the undergraduate labs to do testing of patch managment products and get some real world experience in setting it all up. I left them at about 2am this morning and walked into them again at 12pm this afternoon.

On doing so I couldn't find my pen or some of my ghost boot disks. I got up and looked around where I noticed that two of the machines have been trashed. The one screen is on the floor, the mice and keyboards have been ripped from their wires and the one mouse has been tramped on. There are bots of wire all over the place and a few overturned chairs.

It doesn't look like a theft as the computers were far too broken to have been a failed theft. It could be because some students who are here for the Vac have been inconvienienced by my work, but there are other labs available on campus.

Hopefully with a combination of the cctv cameras, the building's access control logs and some good 'ol fingerprinting we can catch whoever did this. It makes me mad that people can be so destructive.

UPDATE 1: We found a pair of keys complete with dallas chip. This allowed us to identify who the keys belonged to. We are not sure they keys belong to the vandal so we are hoping to find login attempts for his student number in the event logs.

Posted by Dominic White