Following events that have affected at least a half dozen other comparable institutions in recent months, the Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (HS Kaiserslautern) has become the latest German-speaking university to be targeted by a ransomware attack. HS Kaiserslautern is one of the major applied science universities in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which is located […]
Stanford University has recently reported a security incident involving a data breach. The incident, which occurred between December 2022 and January 2023, involved the unauthorized download of files containing sensitive admission information for the Economics Ph.D. program from the university’s website. Recently, 897 candidates were notified by the university about this recent data breach. As […]
China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of conducting a string of cyberattacks aimed at aeronautical and military research-oriented Northwestern Polytechnical University in the city of Xi’an in June 2022. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre (NCVERC) disclosed its findings last week, and accused the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO) at […]
A Netherland university that became the target of a massive ransomware attack has received back its ransom money that it paid to hackers. They got double the money back. University spokesperson said “This money will not go to a general fund, but into a fund to help financially strapped students. The southern Maastricht University in […]
Earlier this week, executives at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Spain confirmed that their computer systems were the target of a cyberattack that disrupted the operations of the entire campus, including email services, databases and its virtual campus service. Apparently, the failures caused were general and operations have not been resumed normally, in addition […]
Security teams at Howard University in Washington D.C. confirmed that their systems were compromised due to a ransomware attack late last week. University officials say the systems will be restored shortly, though the process has already taken longer than expected. Apparently, the attack led to the disruption of multiple systems, generating a forced reduction of […]
The recent cybersecurity incident at the University of California led to the compromise of confidential information, as confirmed by university executives this week. This unauthorized access was reportedly realized through abuse of a critical vulnerability on the Accellion FTA server, an online file sharing platform. On Monday, the University published a more detailed report on […]
The cyber-incident takes most of the university’s systems offline and officials estimate that the institution will take weeks to recover
A hacker or simply call them a cyber criminal hacked into the independent student newspaper of the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) “The Fulcrum” and ended up deleting the entire website early Sunday morning. The Fulcrum has been serving the University of Ottawa since 1942 while the website has been online since 2006. The deleted content […]
It is the second major breach that the Australian National University suffered in 2018
According to the ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), students, professors and administrative staff of Georgia Tech, a university recognized internationally for its computer science program, have been victims of a data breach incident that would have compromised around 1.3 million of company records. Georgia Tech recently revealed the […]
About 100 students were affected by the incident Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report a vulnerability in one of Stanford University online systems that allows students to visualize their records gave one of the students the ability To see the grades of other students’ high school education. […]
Medical files, containing personal data of patients of University of Washington Medicine, were mistakenly exposed following a data error. UW Medicine, in a press release dated February 20, 2019, has revealed the detection of “…an error in a database configuration that made certain protected internal files temporarily available on the internet and visible by search.” […]
Georgia-based Augusta University Health has admitted for becoming the victim of a data breach back in 2017. In the data breach, personal data of more than 417,000 patients, students, and faculty members got leaked. The breach resulted from a phishing attack. Augusta University informed about the breach in a message that read: “It is with […]
Hackers, as well as students, are reportedly running cryptocurrency mining operations on the academic networks of universities. A cyber security firm has been warning universities about such activities, which could turn out to be one of the key security risks that target the sector itself. Cyber security firm Vectra points, based on its Attacker Behavior […]
The FBI apprehended the suspect Trevor Graves, age 22 at the close of October, in Denver, his hometown. According to an FBI arrest warrant, the teen planted device keyloggers on several school computers. Graves had help from other classmates. One would plant the keylogger, while the another would attend class and verify a teacher had […]
A couple of weeks ago on August 23rd in Edmonton, Alberta; Canada based MacEwan University revealed that their staff fell for a phishing scam resulting in a wire transfer of whopping $11.4 million. According to the official statement on August 31st, 2017, unknown hackers sent “a series of fraudulent emails and convinced staff to change the electronic banking information for one […]
One of the world’s leading educational institution University College London (UCL) has come under a massive ransomware attack. According to reports, the attack affected the university’s IT system including student management system and shared drives. The ransomware attack came weeks after the country’s National Health Service (NHS) had its IT system crippled by WannaCry ransomware attack. Although […]
Southern Oregon University has announced that it is the latest organization to fall victim to a business email compromise (BEC) attack after fraudsters tricked the educational establishment into transferring money into a bank account under their control. According to media reports, the university fell for the scam in late April when it wired $1.9 million […]
For almost four months, script kiddies ran amok in one of Stanford’s subdomains, installing web shells, mailers, and other types of web malware. The infection was noticed last week by security researchers at Netcraft and was reported to Stanford admins, who recently cleaned their site. The affected website belongs to the Paul F. Glenn Center […]
Authorities on Wednesday arrested an engineering student from the University of Central Florida accused of hacking computer system and changing his grade from F to B which under the state of Florida is a crime. The culprit, 22-year-old Mr. Sami Adel Ammar was reported by his professor to the authorities who alleged him of tampering with his […]