A security researcher recently found a database exposed to the internet containing sensitive information on independent school students and faculty including financial data, salaries, professional details, health information and child abuse reports. The unprotected database of the Southern Association of Independent Schools affected about 700,000 records and potentially nearly as many – or even more […]
Modern ransomware attacks are as much about stealing data and threatening to leak it as they are about encrypting data. Which means that when a school or hospital is attacked, it’s often students’ and patients’ data that’s leaked if the ransom demand isn’t met. We have to wonder how greedy any person would need to […]
Colleges and universities have recently seen a striking increase in cyberattacks, especially ransomware attacks. A study by Sophos (PDF) conducted in January and February 2022 found that 64% of higher education organizations had been hit by ransomware attacks during the previous year, a significant jump from 44% the year before. Why was there such an […]
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