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PA: Cyber attack affecting Hanover Area

Posted on March 3, 2021 by Dissent

Michael P. Buffer reports: A cyber attack has impacted Hanover Area School District and some neighboring school districts, Superintendent Nathan Barrett said Tuesday during a virtual school board meeting. The district experienced intermittent internet issues on Monday and Tuesday, Barrett said. Board President John Mahle contacted the Army National Guard to investigate with its domestic…

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Updating the Maze attack on Fairfax County Public Schools

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Dissent

In September, 2020 Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia was hit with Maze ransomware.The attack was announced on Maze’s dedicated leak site in early September, and after multiple queries by this site, FCPS issued a statement confirming that they had been attacked. One month later, the threat actors started dumping some data on their leak…

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NL: Secondary school in Lochem pays ransom after cyber attack criminals

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Dissent

NOS reports: Staring College, with offices in Lochem and Borculo, has paid ransom to cyber criminals who locked files. School board member Carlien Krist-Spit tells Omroep Gelderland that payment has been made to prevent education from being given for a longer period of time. The school noted the attack on Tuesday. A lot of data suddenly turned out to…

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GA: Metro school district working on cybersecurity after reports of hacking

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Dissent

Mike Petchenik reports: The DeKalb County School District is making changes to student computer account passwords after reports of hacking. One mother told Channel 2′s Mike Petchenik that when she got a call from her daughter’s assistant principal accusing her 10-year-old daughter of sending inappropriate messages to a teacher, she knew something wasn’t right. […] She contacted…

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Cheating Companies Hacked Websites at MIT, Stanford, Columbia And More Than 100 Other Schools

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Dissent

Derek Newton reports: Jim Ridolfo at the University of Kentucky and William Hart-Davidson at Michigan State University have found that more than 100 websites of American colleges have been hacked or otherwise compromised by essay mills, the contract cheating providers that improperly sell academic work to students. Read more on Forbes.

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Oxford University Covid-19 laboratory hacked by cyber gang

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Dissent

Robert Mendick reports: An Oxford University biology laboratory researching Covid-19 has been hacked by a cyber gang amid fears they are trying to sell secrets to the highest bidder. The cyber attack is now being investigated by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the cyber security arm of GCHQ. The intelligence agency confirmed it was “aware of an…

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