KnowBe4

MAY 7, 2024

New data from Verizon makes it clear that the Education sector is under attack, but also breaks down which threat actions and patterns are used most.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 3, 2024

Paul Givan says details of 407 people mistakenly sent out included names, addresses and personal comments The education minister in Northern Ireland has “unreservedly” apologised after the personal details of more than 400 people who had offered to contribute to a review of special education needs were breached. Continue reading.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 5, 2021

Claudia Natanson Describes Vision of U.K.’s s New Self-Regulatory Body U.K. Cyber Security Council is a new self-regulatory body for the profession. It is tasked by the U.K. Government to execute their vision for the U.K.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 24, 2024

As cyberthreats continue to evolve, it is crucial for higher education institutions and universities to be vigilant. Enforcing security strategies prudently designed to safeguard digital assets and the integrity of their academic research provides better cyber resilience.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 13, 2023

The post IT Governance Podcast 2023-1: more ransomware attacks on the education sector, and DPC and Meta sued appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Now available on Spotify , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. NetSupport RAT is a remote control and desktop management software developed by NetSupport Ltd. implacavelvideos[.]com).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

New Mexico sues Google for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from children. Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from students with an age of less than 13 years.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

CISA and FBI warned of attacks conducted by the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang against the education sector in the country. The FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory warning that the Bl00dy Ransomware group is actively targeting the education sector by exploiting the PaperCut remote-code execution vulnerability CVE-2023-27350.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks targeting education institutions. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks against education institutions. SecurityAffairs – hacking, education institutions). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Jamf

AUGUST 25, 2022

With Apple School Manager introducing federated authentication with Google Workspace, it is now easier than ever for educators to work with the Apple and Google ecosystems side by side, getting the most out of each. Read on for observations about the power of Google apps on iPad.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Online education giant K12 Inc. The education company Online education giant K12 Inc. is a for-profit education company that sells online schooling and curricula. is a for-profit education company that sells online schooling and curricula. “K12 Inc. NYSE: LRN) (“Stride” or “we”) – to be Stride, Inc.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 17, 2022

The meeting’s tentative agenda includes a vote by the FTC on a policy statement prioritizing the enforcement of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) as it applies to the use of education technology.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

The group continued to carry out password spray attacks targeting the educational sector for infrastructure procurement and focused on the satellite, government, and defense sectors for intelligence gathering. They also leveraged compromised accounts from educational institutions to create additional Azure tenants.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2020

The online education portal EduCBA discloses a data breach and is resetting customers’ passwords in response to the incident. Online education website EduCBA discloses a data breach, it has started notifying customers that in response to the incident it is resetting their passwords. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing severe issues to the targeted education institutions such as temporarily takedown of the network and online classes. Most of the attacks targeted educational institutions in the U.S.,

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This one-hour course helps teachers learn gen AI basics. Here's how to access it.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 3, 2023

CrowdStrike's Michael Sentonas on Aiding Education Clients With XDR for Chromebooks CrowdStrike has focused on bringing its extended detection and response technology to users with less expensive devices such as Chromebooks by adding support for Google's ChromeOS.

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Jamf

JUNE 21, 2022

This blog post summarises what data privacy means in the context of education institutions and explains how Apple and Jamf help support. Protecting student data and privacy can mean many things for learning in classrooms and at home. Students and teachers often ask what MDM solutions can see, worrying it interferes with their privacy.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector. The US CISA and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector aimed at data theft and disruption of distance learning services.

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Jamf

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Specifically in the educational sector, concerns over how the tool is used have spurned debate between detractors worried about what it will do to education and attractors that are enthusiastic to see the changes it will bring.

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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. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 4, 2024

Roadmap: Charting a Course of Education, Analysis & System Enhancements josh.pearson@t… Thu, 07/04/2024 - 07:00 The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) v4.0 From Knowledge to Action: Education, Gap Analysis, and Your PCI-DSS 4.0 Your PCI-DSS v4.0 However, this new version of PCI-DSS isn’t all about raising the bar.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 15, 2024

How Society, Education and the Workplace Contribute to Underrepresentation The underrepresentation of women in cybersecurity is a complex issue. The reasons behind it include stereotypes and biases, educational barriers, workplace culture, and the lack of visibility and role models.

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Robert McLauchlinDec 10, 2020 Palmyra, NJ (December 10, 2020) – The Foundation (ARMA International Educational Foundation, AIEF) is pleased to announce Vital Records Control’s sponsorship of $3,500.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Education) Two days ago Highline Public Schools (HPS), a school district in Washington state, suffered a cyber attack that caused a significant disruption of its activities. Central office will be open.”

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Every industry is dealing with a myriad of cyber threats in 2024. It seems every day we hear of another breach, another scam, another attack on anything from a small business to a critical aspect of our nation’s infrastructure. It’s a tale as old as the first computer. When a technical issue arises, hand it over to IT.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This incident is the latest in a long line of cyber attacks on the education sector. It followed August’s ransomware attack on the education administrator Blackbaud , in which students’ phone numbers, donation history and events attendance were all compromised. Ransomware epidemic. Cyber Security as a Service.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Blackbaud is a cloud computing provider that serves the social good community — nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, healthcare organizations, religious organizations, and individual change agents. The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it was hit by a cyber attack.

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Jamf

JULY 13, 2022

We’ve expanded the scope of Jamf Breakfast Club, our video seminar series covering new developments and best practices in the world of education. Find out how educators and IT admins around the world are using technology to transform learning and provide better outcomes for students, teachers and parents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Microsoft has observed APT28 using GooseEgg in post-compromise activities against various targets, including government, non-governmental, education, and transportation sector organizations in Ukraine, Western Europe, and North America. CISA added the Windows Print Spooler flaw CVE-2022-38028 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

X also announced that it may collect and use your Job Applications / Recommendations (such as your employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on). Bloomberg first reported the news and confirmed that the change will only impact premium users.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A recent freedom of information request by chartered accountants UHY Hacker Young reveals a worrying rise in reported data breaches across the UK education sector. The post Data breaches grow across UK education sector appeared first on IT Governance Blog. Combat the most common cyber threats.

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Collaboration 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2024

Though it will be available to any user, the new tool is targeted to the education market in particular. Grammarly Authorship will attempt to detect whether AI, a human, or a combination of the two created content.

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Jamf

APRIL 4, 2024

This new study of schools in the UK's Shaw Trust offers hard data for educators seeking to start 1:1 or 1:many iPad programs in their K-12 schools.

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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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