Release Date: November 21, 2023 Alert Code: AA23-325A SUMMARY Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These #StopRansomware advisories include recently and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to…
Search Results for: education
Georgia School District Goes Offline After Suspicious Activity
Leon Stafford reports: Henry County Schools Superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis said Tuesday leaders continue to investigate “suspicious activity” that has resulted in the district restricting Internet access since last week. In a video posted to YouTube, Davis did not say what activity led the south metro Atlanta district to decide to take its Internet offline…
Was a recent OCR settlement fair? Maybe, but maybe not.
Sometimes you think you did a good job — and sometimes you actually did do a good job compared to everyone else — but someone comes along and says what you did wasn’t satisfactory at all. And when that “someone” is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (HHS OCR),…
Virginia’s Fairfax Schools Expose Thousands of Sensitive Student Records
Linda Jacobson reports: Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools disclosed tens of thousands of sensitive, confidential student records, apparently by accident, to a parent advocate who has been an outspoken critic of its data privacy record. The documents identify current and former special education students by name and include letter grades, disability status and mental health…
Jeffco Public Schools hit by the same threat actors that hit Clark County School District — and via the same way
How many school districts have to get massively hacked by the same method before the U.S. Department of Education, CISA, and states start really pressuring public school districts to address well-known vulnerabilities that are being exploited? Maybe that shouldn’t be a rhetorical question. Last night, DataBreaches was contacted by the same threat actors who claimed…
Colorado GOP Wants Inquiry into Delayed Notification of Data Breach
David Migoya reports: Colorado House Republican leaders on Monday called for an investigation into why Colorado’s higher education agency allegedly failed to timely report a massive data breach this summer. In a two-page letter hand-delivered to Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser, five state representatives also urged an inquiry into why thousands potentially…