Cyber attacks on universities can be devastating, with wide-ranging effects for staff and students, data and systems, finances and resource. And the inevitable headlines bring with them potential for reputational damage, too. It’s important, though, to keep a balanced perspective: the sector is ...
UC Berkeley Breach: Universities Increasingly Targeted in CyberattacksThe University of California at Berkeley is investigating acyberattack on a university computer...Gass, Henry
Frequency of attacks: Nine out of ten universities admitted to having suffered at least one successful cyberattack (e.g. on students or theft of IP) with about the same number believing these to be increasing. A third of universities said these were now happening on an hourly basi...
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Monday that besides cyberattacks, the US also has been monitoring voice and text communications of Chinese cellphone users for a long time. Such moves should be strongly condemned, as they have severely endangered national security and personal data secur...
The Times used freedom of information requests to gain its data revealing that criminals are launching hundreds of successful cyber attacks on British universities each year. The report cited experts saying that criminal gangs were finding ways through often weak defenses in an attempt to steal sensit...
Microsoft has observed a subset of this Iranian attack group targeting high-profile experts working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations. These sophisticated phishing attacks used social engineering to compel targets to download malicious files including a new, cust...
Gummer said: "The government is determined to make the UK the safest place in the world to live, work and do business online. That is why we need truly ground-breaking research to stay one step ahead of the growing threat of cyber attacks." ...
DDoSarrest says some of the most recent attacks it has dealt with were on U.S. universities and largely blamed on students showing off or protesting against high tuition fees. The sheer volume of attacks means many perpetrators are never traced, and some computer security experts complain law-...
In recent weeks, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election, including unsuccessful attacks on people associated with both the Trump and Biden campaigns, as detailed below. We have and will continue to defend our democracy against...
HackNotice for Education You’ve got a lot of staff, students, and third-parties connected to your data infrastructure. Not all of them are going to have good intentions. Cyberattacks hurt students and teachers. It’s time to protect them. Educat