A seasoned “hacktivist” reportedly stole sensitive data from more than two million Columbia University students, applicants and employees in a targeted cyberattack officials believe was politically motivated. The sophisticated digital activist, who...
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The university said in a statement that it’s working with law enforcement after experiencing an outage affecting its IT systems on its Upper West Side campus and that the school is working to restore services “as quickly as possible.” Columbia’s academic...
Feng Chia University was attacked by the emerging NOVA ransomware group, the school has confirmed, and it said that necessary measures have been taken to prevent the damage from escalating. The private university, located in the central Taiwan city of...
CloudSEK’s findings indicate that the botnet has expanded its arsenal of attack vectors by approximately 50% since an earlier report in 2024. A concerning discovery was a command-and-control (C2) logger panel hosted on a subdomain of the University of...
A paper published this week by the nonprofit Educause shows that turnover in cybersecurity roles remains low and fewer professionals are planning to leave their departments. The survey found that two-thirds of 141 cybersecurity and privacy professionals...