Shane Duncan reports: Tennessee Wesleyan University was the target of a cyber attack that held certain files for ransom last week. The university is currently investigating the attack that was made on the campus network early Friday morning along with local officials, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), and TWU’s insurance company’s cyberattack team. According…
Category: Education Sector
Update: Security breach that led to abusive posts on Canvas solved, Clark County School District says
Julie Wootton-Greener reports: The Clark County School District has found out how a person gained access to an online learning platform and used it to post “inappropriate messages.” The district said in a statement late Wednesday that the staff had “identified and corrected” the problem that enabled the intruder to access the district’s Canvas system…
UK govt gives malware infected laptops to vulnerable students
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Some of the laptops distributed by the UK Department for Education (DfE) to vulnerable students have been found to be infected with malware as reported by the BBC. The devices are given out for free by the government to support disadvantaged students unable to access remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic, including children and young people who have…
Diponegoro University Responds to Student Data Breach Allegation
Translator: Ricky Mohammad Nugraha TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Diponegoro University (Undip) Semarang on Tuesday revealed that there had been hacking attempts to breach its servers which keeps thousands of its students’ data. They claim that the cyber attacks can be traced back to the Netherlands, China, Hong Kong, and Mexico. They implied that the students’ data is believed to be leaked from…
IE: Schools on security alert as gardaí probe online class breach
Katherine Donnelly and Robin Schiller report: Schools are on alert to IT security risks around online classes as a Garda investigation gets under way into how a number of men gained unauthorised access to a video lesson for second-year students. The breach, at a Co Meath school on Wednesday, was compounded when the men engaged…
Ca: Laurentian Data Breach Class Action Approved by Court
The following is a press release. I’ll meet you on the other side: On October 19, 2021 (sic), a certification and settlement approval hearing took place at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in respect of a settlement agreement with Spencer Brydges with respect to the above-noted action. On December 17, 2020 the Ontario Superior…