Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at LogMeIn, says the impact of ransomware attacks on schools is even more serious today because they’re more reliant on digital tools and IT. “Any kind of disruption to their systems or the systems students use to access information or participate in conference calls wo...
Educational Institutions: According to Info Security Magazine, in 2022 there was a 44% increase in cyber attacks against the education sector. A significant ransomware attack was launched against Richmond Community Schools in Michigan in 2020 — the attack infected all of the schools’ online systems...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The general who leads U.S. efforts to thwart foreign-based cyberattacks, and punish those responsible, says he’s mounting a “surge” to fight incursions that have debilitated government agencies and companies responsible for critical infrastructure. In an interview Tuesday w...
Impact trolls target people with the intention of hurting or upsetting them in real life. Beyond just harassing people online, they also aim to have an impact on their targets’ daily lives. Example: Publish fake information, doxx, or conduct cyberattacks with the goal of damaging the reputati...
Vrizlynn Thing, acting head of Singapore's cybercrime research department, is pushing for digital forensics to be taught in schools, to help address the shortage of talent amid the rising incidence of cyberattacks.
attacks, or getting yourbank details,passwords and other personal information stolen– the internet has provided malicious hackers with a variety of new ways to make money and cause disruption. Just look, for example, at howcritical infrastructure,schoolsandhospitalshave been ...
According to the victims in our study, institutions need to inform more academic members about cyberbullying and cyberstalking and how to respond to cyberattacks (see also Meter et al.,2021). Early education about web-based risk and preventive strategies for self-protection are crucial in control...
in the plant sabotage and somehow hide the changes that would be made from the users and programmers in Iran. As explained earlier, one crucial flaw of these type of cyber-attacks is the potential that the government or company will be unable to detect the resultant damages from such attacks...
Examples include hacking or unauthorised access to online accounts (such as banking, email or social media accounts), denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and devices being infected by a virus or malicious software (including ransomware). While traditional offline crime is decreasing, online crime is...
In the last week, anFBI alertand aCheck Pointrepott reiterated what many in the healthcare sector have known for some time: Ransomware threat actors are consistently targeting and successfully exploiting providers and causing ongoing outages from a range of cyberattacks. ...