Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) has suffered a massive data breach leaking sensitive personal information of current and former students and educators spanning over a decade.
The Department of Education, FBI, and DHS CISA responded to a cyber attack and confirmed a ransomware incident on the second-largest school district, Los Angeles School District (LAUSD), over the Labor Day Weekend.
Stanford University is notifying 27,000 individuals that a ransomware attack claimed by the Russian-linked Akira cybercrime gang leaked their sensitive personal information.
A temporary moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology in state schools is now a matter of law in New York, following the conclusion of a study that found that potential rights violations outweighed the safety benefit.
Easy targets. That’s the best way to describe universities and colleges as targets of cyberattacks. Most still operate using legacy systems and infrastructure, and many users, devices, and inadequate cybersecurity policies make them easy prey for bad actors.
