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Ransomware attack makes school children go home and Veeam Backup Vulnerability
Ransomware attacks typically cause significant disruptions for both public and private sector organizations, often halting operations for days. In a recent incident, however, the Charles Darwin School faced such a severe attack that it had to send students home and declare an extended holiday for the rest of the week. The cyber attack was detected […]
Privacy alert as Texas school district scans student devices
A school district in Texas has decided to scan its student devices to find whether they are mentally sound and haven’t been targets of cyber bullying. However, the school district has to learn a fact that such surveillance tactics might/have already triggered a kind of privacy concern among students and parents. Longview Independent School District […]
Cybersecurity tips for School and College students in 2021
As most of the students in United States are preparing to attend physical classes from September first week for the academic year 2021-2022, Sophos has issued some Cybersecurity tips for school and college students and those are follows- Website encryption is must- Whether the student is attending physical or online classes, sending data online with […]
China puts chips on children’s school uniforms for surveillance
If you think that the China’s penchant to spy on its populace has hit a saturation point, here’s more to add to it. All schools in Southern China have been asked to implement a new rule to force children to wear micro-chipped uniforms in order to track down truants. The objective of this extensive surveillance […]
Schools in Florida turn extremely vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
Florida-based School Networks are extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks, says a research study made by United Data Technologies. The Doral-based cyber security firm also confirmed that at least 4 Florida school district networks were hacked by cyber crooks to slip into other sensitive government systems, including state voting systems just before the US 2016 Polls. […]
