Universities have found themselves in the firing line of cybercriminals, as ransomware attacks against higher education institutions have increased, analysis of recent incidents has revealed. According to the Comparitech’s Education Ransomware Roundup...
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A Houston vocational college is accused in a class-action lawsuit of failing to protect students and employees from a “massive and preventable data breach” in 2025. Former and current students and employees of the College of Healthcare Professions, a...
Jisc, the non-profit organisation devoted to delivering digital infrastructure and shared services across the UK’s higher education sector, has resigned an updated cyber threat intelligence sharing agreement with its counterparts from across the English...
Mount Royal University in Calgary says hackers stole and then deleted data from its file storage systems after breaching the university’s network. In an update published on its website, MRU states that it has engaged technical teams and external...
China-aligned attackers broke into the networks of U.S. and Canadian universities to steal sensitive data and establish persistent access via webshells and backdoors, Proofpoint threat researchers said Tuesday. The espionage-motivated attacks targeted...