The FBI have issued an advisory about university and college credentials being offered for sale across a range of cyber crime platforms. Compromised US Academic Credentials Identified Across Various Public and Dark Web Forums (ic3.gov) This follows a steady increase over the past months of Universities and College being the …
Are ransomware gangs on the way up, reorganising or on the way down?
To be honest it depends on what research you are reading at the time. Even though these gangs are styling themselves on real world businesses, they are criminals and so do keep some thing secret. It does not matter ransomware is a major risk to any organisation. The main thing …
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Universities as targets UPDATED 23 May 2022
This post was first made on 12 April 2022 Update 23 May 2022 Now it is School Districts as targets: K-12 school districts in New Mexico, Ohio crippled by cyberattacks – The Record by Recorded Future Ransomware attack exposes data of 500,000 Chicago students (bleepingcomputer.com) Update 20 May 2022 I …
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The wrong Lincoln College closes
I saw the news last week that Lincoln College had closed because of cyber attacks – I was obviously attracted to the story as we live near to Lincoln, here in the UK, but it was not that Lincoln College. Because of my teaching commitments the story of the US …
University of Essex data breach
This data breach is not due to ransomware or a cyber attack but it appears to be a simple mistake in controlling PII. University of Essex data breach being taken ‘very seriously’ – BBC News Nice to see the lawyers involved. No indication that the ICO is involved yet. Universities …
