CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For the first time in the history of cyber attacks, a China-based university serving Aviation industry has accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for hacking into its servers to steal intelligence related to aviation, aerospace and navigation study material.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing severe issues to the targeted education institutions such as temporarily takedown of the network and online classes. Most of the attacks targeted educational institutions in the U.S.,

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A journalist incorrectly branded as a “hacker” by the governor of Missouri won’t be prosecuted “for hacking” This was a quick and foreseen win for St. The paper had also told DESE that it confirmed the flaw with three educators and Professor Khan.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this post, I’m going to share why security education is important and how to educate your clients about security in terms they’ll easily understand as it applies to their businesses. Educating your clients (and potential clients) about website security isn’t just the right thing for your business, it’s the right thing to do period.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft has blunted the ongoing activities of the Nobelium hacking collective, giving us yet another glimpse of the unceasing barrage of hack attempts business networks must withstand on a daily basis. Nobelium is the Russian hacking collective best known for pulling off the milestone SolarWinds supply chain hack last December. “To

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The education sector is increasingly vulnerable to simple and sophisticated cyber threats, and higher learning is especially vulnerable. Here are a few prime examples of cyber-attacks in the education sector. One report from Sophos shows the full spectrum of what’s happening in the education sector’s cybersecurity systems.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 26, 2021

Everything on the internet requires a password. Continue reading How Passwords Get Hacked at Sucuri Blog. The post How Passwords Get Hacked appeared first on Security Boulevard. Can you think of an online service that doesn’t require a password?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2018

NCSA operates the StaySafeOnline website that provides a variety of cybersecurity educational resources and programs. We also have a lot of educational programs that reach far beyond the insular, cybersecurity expert areas. We have a lot of programs geared toward education at a lot of different levels. Schrade r: Absolutely.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It foreshadowed how encryption would come to be used as a foundation for Internet commerce – by companies and criminals. It was unleashed on the internet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and began infecting computers at various universities. This was considered a significant win for the U.S. The Creeper Virus (1971).

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Chris Vickery, a California-based data security expert, told The Independent that it appears the department of education was “publishing data that it shouldn’t have been publishing. No exploit, hacking or vulnerability is involved here.”

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

Microsoft attributes the attacks to a Chinese APT group dubbed Hafnium that has a history of exploiting vulnerabilities in internet-facing servers and targeting Office 365 users. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

These 16 groups have targeted multiple law enforcement, government, healthcare, financial, educational, and private sector organizations in India, taking advantage of geopolitical narratives before recent elections,” researchers noted. Resecurity observed that the Ahadun-Ahad 2.0

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

How did America and Americans regress to being much less secure than before the Internet? Everyone knows the many amazing conveniences, benefits, and advances the Internet has enabled. The internet was designed that way.” A recent Council on Foreign Relations report confronts this irrational Internet utopianism. “

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The “version history” of the internet was split by what we could do online—simple browsing across Web 1.0’s These are some of the findings from Malwarebytes’ new research survey, “Everyone’s afraid of the internet and no one’s sure what to do about it.”

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. What if you were dialed the entire Internet? It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. On the internet. Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Almost a million files with minors’ data, including home addresses and photos were left open to anyone on the internet, posing a threat to children. Leaking private data on the internet, in this case, poses a grave risk, as most of the leaked files expose minors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

Belnet (or the Belgian National research and education network ) is a Belgian internet provider for educational institutions, research centres, scientific institutes, and government services. BELNET provides web services to higher education, federal departments and ministries, and international organizations.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

As wake up calls go, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack was piercing. This is rightly motivated by the SolarWinds hack that brought third-party supply chain risks to the forefront. The US government does not own or control Internet traffic, as some nations such as China does. Tom Garrubba, CISO, Shared Assessments.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

G Suite for Education (formerly called Google Apps for Education) is a suite of web applications including Gmail , Hangouts, Google Calendar , Google Drive , Docs, Sheets, Slides, Groups, News, Play, Sites, and Google Vault (about the difference between Vault and Spinbackup read here ).

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When it comes to Missouri Governor Mike Parson's explosive reaction to a reporter "hacking" the state's web application, there is an outpouring of public figures, InfoSec professionals, and other tech experts telling the governor what they think. Journalists responsibly sounding an alarm on data privacy is not criminal hacking.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As the world is turning completely digital, the need to be connected to the internet has become a necessity to everyone, rather than just a trend. However, not all seem to be merry for staying connected to the web 24×7. The post Google wants you to follow these cybersecurity basics appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group (aka Agrius , BlackShadow , Pink Sandstorm , DEV-0022 ) has been targeting Israeli organizations in higher education and tech sectors with destructive cyber attacks since January 2023. Based on our telemetry, the most targeted organizations belong to the education and technology sectors.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. The FBI has observed incidents of stolen higher education credential information posted on publically accessible online forums or listed for sale on criminal marketplaces.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 29, 2021

Most of us count our homes as a safe place; a place that’s physical and not subject to the laws of internet searching. A recent internet OSINT challenge asked participants to find an address in Los Angeles, CA, using only the following image: Image: Courtesy of Maxie Reynolds’ Instagram. In part, this is now a myth.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Rather than search for a business or financial institution, type the business’s URL into an internet browser’s address bar to access the official website directly. Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements.

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SecureBlitz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As students embrace technological devices and the internet, they become prime targets for cybercriminals, hackers, and even fellow students. Cybercriminals may use ransomware to encrypt students' educational documents, making them […] The post 20 Essential Cybersecurity Tips For Students appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker named Fxmsp for hacking over three hundred organizations worldwide and selling access to their networks. The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker that goes online with the moniker Fxmsp for hacking over three hundred organizations worldwide and selling access to their networks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Most of the victims of the campaign are education, government, and healthcare organizations, as well as human rights activists and journalists. Charming Kitten was observed exploiting known vulnerabilities in internet-exposed Microsoft Exchange servers as an initial attack vector. ” concludes the post. ” concludes the post.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2021

Belnet (or the Belgian National research and education network ) is a Belgian internet provider for educational institutions, research centres, scientific institutes and government services. BELNET provides web services to higher education, federal departments and ministries, and international organisations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

hosts exposed on the internet that are running WS_FTP, they also published a PoC exploit for this vulnerability. hosts on the internet that are running WS_FTP (and also have their webserver exposed, which is necessary for exploitation). Most of these online assets belong to large enterprises, governments and educational institutions.”

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