Proofpoint observed COVID-19 themes impacting education institutions throughout the pandemic, but consistent, targeted credential theft campaigns using such lures began in October 2021. click here to read full Article Read more on computer hacking...
The college closed all its campuses this week and canceled all extra-curricular activities, including sports. The hack comes just weeks before the end of the fall semester. click here to read full Article Read...
The University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom has announced extensive operational issues that have taken most of its IT systems down, attributing the problem to a cyber-attack. click here to read full Article...
A team of researchers have uncovered a new type of backdoor attack that they showed can “manipulate natural-language modeling systems to produce incorrect outputs and evade any known defense.” click here to read full...
The University of Kentucky said it discovered a security breach of one of its test-taking platforms during a scheduled security penetration test carried out by a third party in early June. click here to...
Researchers from the University of Minnesota apologized to the maintainers of Linux Kernel Project on Saturday for intentionally including vulnerabilities in the project’s code, which led to the school being banned from contributing to...
The move comes after a group of UMN researchers were caught submitting a series of malicious code commits that deliberately introduced security vulnerabilities in the official Linux codebase. click here to read full Article...
Swinburne University of Technology confirmed that personal details of staff, students, and external parties are exposed in a data breach. The information of around 5,200 Swinburne staff and 100 Swinburne students was available on...
Swinburne University said that the leaked data, including personal information on staff, students, and external parties, was event registration information from multiple events from 2013 onwards. click here to read full Article Read more...
At a time when data breaches are making headlines, a Grambling State University student is about to receive Louisiana’s first bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity. Alexis White of Arcadia also holds a biology degree. Grambling...
The University of Northampton suffered a cyber-attack on 17th March which had interrupted services to its IT and telephone systems and servers. The computer-based phone system is not functioning and there have been some...
The institution, which spans 13 locations across the northernmost part of the UK, warned that “most services” – including its Brightspace virtual learning environment – were affected. click here to read full Article Read...
The computer network of the University of Texas at El Paso was turned off out of caution after a “potentially malicious intrusion” was detected in the early hours of Friday morning. click here to...
Purdue University and MITRE are combining their expertise and capabilities to form a new public-private partnership focusing on key areas of national safety and security. click here to read full Article Read More on...
Oxford reported on Thursday that one of its research labs dedicated to studying COVID-19 suffered a cyberattack, following a Forbes investigation indicating external access to a number of its systems. Click here for image...
The school’s services, including its website, have been down since Tuesday, with personnel shutting down computers on the Thunder Bay and Orillia campuses to stop the attack from spreading. Click here for image source...
