In recent years, colleges and universities have faced an evolving array of cybersecurity challenges. But one threat is showing signs of becoming both more frequent and more politically charged: hacktivism. Hacktivism, or cyberattacks driven by political...
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Today, the U.S. Department of Education, alongside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and other federal partners issued new guidance in its Safeguarding Academia...
The bill to Munster Technological University (MTU) arising from a February 2023 cyber ransomware attack has risen to €4.2 million. That is a €700,000 increase on the €3.5 million cost put on the attack in the university’s 2023 annual report As a result...
The University of St. Thomas’ online systems are “gradually returning to normal” following a nine-day outage that prevented students and faculty from accessing key resources by the first day of school, the interim president said in an...
On the night of August 19, the IT infrastructure of the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) was the victim of a serious cyber attack that rendered the University’s website and all digital services temporarily inaccessible. The incident resulted in an...