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Ransomware Attacks on Schools: 'Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels' Stop Online Learning

SecureWorld News

Ransomware attack shuts down California online learning. In Central California, the Selma Unified School District abruptly stopped online classes during the middle of the day because of a ransomware attack which was spreading across the district's network. Ransomware attack hits North Carolina schools.

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Weakness at the Network Edge: Mandiant Examines 2022’s Zero-Day Exploits

eSecurity Planet

A quarter were financially motivated, and three of those were linked to ransomware operations. “This activity continues China’s pattern of exploiting internet-facing devices, especially those used for managed security purposes (e.g. Overall, the proportion of financially motivated zero-day exploitation decreased in 2022.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

Digital content has become the liquid fuel of digital commerce—and much of it now flows into and out of massive data lakes supplied by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. However, a surge of high-profile ransomware attacks and supply chain breaches has made company leaders very nervous. “I

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Ultimate Guide for Cloud Apps Audit for Education

Spinone

There is arguably no organization today that isn’t at least considering hosting business services in the public cloud. Cloud has revolutionized the way businesses thinking about their infrastructure. Cloud Ransomware Protection Ransomware poses a tremendous threat to data of all kinds. What are these?

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Office 365 Backup. The Cost of Data Loss

Spinone

The large public cloud vendors today, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, all have a multitude of services in their portfolio that businesses can generally find that fit any use case they may have for infrastructure or services. These two services are email and file storage.

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Migrating from On Premise to Google G Suite

Spinone

Obtaining the Google G Suite Skills Needed for Migration The really nice thing about Google G Suite is there are a wealth of resources for organization’s on-premise IT Teams to leverage to quickly get up to speed with Google G Suite before migrating business services and data to the G Suite public cloud.

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Cloud Security Checklist

Spinone

The cloud has certainly matured as a platform and solution for today’s business-critical applications. Organizations have chosen to run not only production virtual machines on top of cloud infrastructure but also business services such as email and file storage. However, this is not true.

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