Mike Deak reports: Two Somerset County school districts were the targets of suspected cyber attacks in the past week. Schools in both Hillsborough and Bernards were closed for a day after cyber attacks were suspected. Hillsborough schools were closed on Monday and Bernards schools were closed April 7. Schools in both districts were open the following…
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If you would meet us on the street – you would never realize that we are cyberpests, because we are the same normal people like everyone else. Many have families and children, the only thing that these circumstances in which we found themselves in our country are. We have no hatred and desire to cause…
Ch: General trade school (Allgemeine Gewerbeschule) hit by Ryuk ransomware
The following is a translation of a press release from the Canton of Basel-Stadt Education Department that appears at https://www.bs.ch/nm/2021-allgemeine-gewerbeschule-ags-wird-ziel-eines-professionellen-hackerangriffs-ed.html: All of the school’s servers are currently unavailable, so no data can be accessed. To ensure that school starts on Monday, a temporary WLAN network was activated, the data center isolated and the host systems shut…
Cyber Criminals Hone Attacks Against Schools
Kathleen E. Dion of Robinson & Cole writes: The FBI recently issued a Flash alert warning higher education institutions, k-12 schools, and seminaries about increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting the education industry. According to the warning, “[s]ince March 2020, the FBI has become aware of PYSA ransomware attacks against U.S. and foreign government entities,…
SG: Personal data of 30,000 users of NTUC’s e2i training and job matching services may have been breached
Kenny Chee reports: The personal data of about 30,000 people who have used the services of National Trades Union Congress’ Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) may have been accessed by cyber criminals. The crooks may have had unauthorised access to people’s names, educational qualifications and NRIC, contact and employment details, according to a statement by…
DeKalb, Austin schools notify parents about data breach
Kristal Dixon reports that a Georgia school district is notifying parents because of a breach at PCS Revenue Control Systems. This site had previously noted Polk County was notifying parents. …. PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. this month sent letters to parents stating that the company in December 2019 detected an unauthorized access to files…