Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

CISA warns that the Akira Ransomware gang is exploiting the Cisco ASA/FTD vulnerability CVE-2020-3259 (CVSS score: 7.5) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco ASA and FTD bug, tracked as CVE-2020-3259 (CVSS score: 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. in attacks in the wild.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 28, 2022

DeVry CISO on Managing Security, Change in the Transformed Education Industry In March of 2020, DeVry University had 40 active campuses across the United States. Then the pandemic hit, and they all closed their doors and sent students home to study virtually.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Early June, researchers at F5 Networks have addressed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, that resides in undisclosed pages of Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) of the BIG-IP product. The CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability received a CVSS score of 10, this means that is quite easy to exploit.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

The FBI has issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks on education institutions in the US and UK. The FBI has issued Tuesday an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2020

CISA is warning of the active exploitation of the unauthenticated remote code execution CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability affecting F5 Big-IP ADC devices. “This Alert also provides additional detection measures and mitigations for victim organizations to help recover from attacks resulting from CVE-2020-5902.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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Collibra

JUNE 27, 2023

1) How can institutions of higher education use data to start making strategic decisions? Get all the details in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud for Higher Education , our helpful solution brief. Graduate to data intelligence It’s no secret that data is key to the educational mission. In 2020, the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

Last month’s passage of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 means all IoT devices used by government agencies will soon have to comply with strict NIST standards. In May 2020, NIST released two foundational documents that serve as a foundation for the newly created guidelines. Education and awareness.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. An extension of the celebration for Data Protection Day in Europe, Data Privacy Day functions as the signature event of the National Cyber Security Centre’s ongoing education and awareness efforts surrounding online privacy.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. The last press release on the site dates back to March 2020. The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. But until it was notified last week, U.S.

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AIIM

JUNE 30, 2020

What does content management look like in 2020, years after ECM died? AIIM has been the go-to resource for information professionals to find research, education, and training for over 70 years. It turns out, the story is just a little more complicated than one technology being replaced by another.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. FritzFrog is a sophisticated botnet that was involved in attacks against SSH servers worldwide since January 2020. and Europe belonging to universities and a railway company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On November 2, 2022, the ICO issued to the UK Department for Education (“ DfE ”) a formal reprimand following an investigation into the sharing of personal data stored on the Learning Records Service (“ LRS ”), a database which provides a record of pupils’ qualifications that the DfE has overall responsibility for.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Palmyra, NJ (October 28,2020) – The Foundation (ARMA International Educational Foundation) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 LaARMA Nostra Certification Reimbursement Awards. The post 2020 LaARMA NOSTRA CERTIFICATION REIMBURSEMENT AWARDS ANNOUNCED via AIEF appeared first on IG GURU.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

According to the FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report , FireEye analyzed 1.1 The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. million malware samples per day in 2019 and identified 1,268 malware families. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion in losses tied to cybercrime in 2020, and BEC fraud and romance scams alone accounted for nearly 60 percent of those losses. Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report. percent in 2019 to 33 percent in 2020, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 4, 2021

In its second full year overseeing and regulating the GDPR in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission ( DPC ) has published its 2020 Annual Report , highlighting key observations, emerging guidance, and large scale inquiries and decisions of 2020. 90% of the recorded breach cases were concluded in 2020. Breach Notifications.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

Despite the rise in sophisticated attacks, 2020 will continue to see newbies and unskilled attackers using toolkits from the dark web to launch scams (such as sexploitation), and phishing and ransomware attacks. Education is also becoming increasingly important when protecting organisations.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2020

On July 1, 2020, amendments to Vermont’s data breach notification law, signed into law earlier this year, will take effect along with Vermont’s new student privacy law. Security Breach Notice Act. The law is enforceable by the Vermont Attorney General.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The 3 plugins are installed on more than 100,000 different educational platforms used by several universities such as the University of Florida, University of Michigan, University of Washington as well as hundreds of online academies. ” reads the description for the CVE-2020-11511 flaw (Becoming a Teacher). million times.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has arguably affected the education sector more than any other, with schools, colleges and universities around the globe having been forced to close their doors and deliver classes remotely. The most common threat that the education sector faces are downloaders, adware and Trojan horses. Adware and malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. By 2020, he’d shifted his focus almost entirely to selling access to companies.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin.

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OpenText Information Management

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Rethink the nature of humanity and the evolution of our species on every level: Economic, Societal, Technological, Individual, Environmental, Educational, Geopolitical, Industries. There has never been a more important time … The post OpenText World 2020—Are You Ready for the Great Rethink? appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

million $1,200 Minted 5 million $2,500 Styleshare 6 million $2,700 Ggumim 2 million $1,300 Mindful 2 million $1,300 StarTribune 1 million $1,100 ChatBooks 15 million $3,500 The Chronicle Of Higher Education 3 million $1,500 Zoosk 30 million $500. Million March 26th, 2020 Yes Dave.com 7 Million July 2020 * Yes Drizly.com 2.4

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 31, 2020

With all of the craziness of the past few weeks, it slipped up on me, but here is the 2020 Internet Minute infographic! The updated graphic shown above, once again created by Lori Lewis, illustrates what happens within the internet in a typical minute in 2020. It’s Time for the 2020 Internet Minute Infographic!:

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Danish security researcher Ollypwn has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) denial of service exploit for the CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) component on Windows Server (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019) devices.

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Rocket Software

MAY 13, 2020

And then enter the COBOL discussions of 2020. Programmers should influence our educational institutions. You’re tapping into the vein of what those forward-thinking educators want. The post Mainframes, Freight Trains and Education Pains appeared first on The Rocket Software Blog. Now it suddenly has a nationwide stage.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

ChaChi has been first observed in the wild in the first half of 2020, but cybersecurity experts underestimated it. The malware was recently employed in attacks against large US schools and education organizations. . The name ChaChi comes from two key components of the malware, Cha shell and Chi sel. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The American education technology firm Chegg discloses a security breach, it already sent notifications to its employees. The US education technology company Chegg discloses a security breach that took place in early April, the firm already sent notifications to its employees.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “As threat actors become increasingly sophisticated and aggressive in their attacks, we are constantly educating employees about new tactics that might be used against them and adopting new security measures to prevent future attacks.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

Dobbs’s booter service, IPStresser, in June 2020. But as it happens, Dobbs himself provided some perspective on his thinking in an email exchange with KrebsOnSecurity back in 2020. ” In December 2020, Dobbs filed an application with the state of Hawaii to withdraw IP Stresser Inc. Image: archive.org.

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IG Guru

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The post Webinar: Privacy & Data Security Regulation: Implications for RIM & IG October 22, 2020 12:00 MST appeared first on IG GURU. Click on an image or click here to register.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 26, 2022

Meanwhile, other defences are simply a matter of education and effective management. The post UK organisations have experienced a 62% increase in cyber threats since 2020 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. However, the weaknesses addressed in the report aren’t high-tech, complex solutions.

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