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Hacking the High School Grading System

Schneier on Security

Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system. ” It’s a basic math hack. I know this is a minor thing in the universe of problems with secondary education and grading, but I found the hack interesting. What’s not helping?

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Iranian Hackers Launch Destructive Cyber Attacks on Israeli Tech and Education Sectors

The Hacker News

Israeli higher education and tech sectors have been targeted as part of a series of destructive cyber attacks that commenced in January 2023 with an aim to deploy previously undocumented wiper malware.

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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Ransomware attack disrupts Island Education Federation Servers

CyberSecurity Insiders

As per the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, the attack took place on the computer network of Island Education Federation, locking down access to important documents that might take weeks or months to be restored. The post Ransomware attack disrupts Island Education Federation Servers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education and government sectors

Security Affairs

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, NetSupport RAT)

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Bl00dy Ransomware Gang actively targets the education sector exploiting PaperCut RCE

Security Affairs

CISA and FBI warned of attacks conducted by the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang against the education sector in the country. The FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory warning that the Bl00dy Ransomware group is actively targeting the education sector by exploiting the PaperCut remote-code execution vulnerability CVE-2023-27350.

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Vulnerability leads to data leak in Missouri Education Department

CyberSecurity Insiders

A data breach has reportedly occurred at the Missouri Education Department, exposing 100,000 social security numbers of teachers, admins and counselors. Note 1- A reporter at the St Louis Post Dispatch discovered the incident and the data exposure and notified it to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on October 11th, 2021.

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