Welcome to the cybersecurity news archive GÉANT cybersecurity news for academia is a monthly security newsletter dedicated to providing tailored cyber threat intelligence for universities and research organisations worldwide. This news archive lists all...
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October 2021 was Cyber Security Month. Also this year GÉANT launched a campaign to raise cybersecurity awareness within the R&E community. After the success of “Become a Cyber Hero” CSM2020, which saw the active participation of 20 NREN...
Security Day 2021 took place online on Monday 14 June, launching the series of TNC21 side meetings! Around 85 attendees joined a full day of discussions, workshops and briefings on the latest security developments for Research & Education. The main...
Ransomware attacks on Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the world have been increasing recently and for some colleges and universities, this has been devastating. Recently some HEAnet members were victims of such attacks. Colleges and...
In times when cybercrime keeps evolving and cyber criminals show increased levels of sophistication and opportunism, cybersecurity awareness remains a key and vital factor in the fight against this very contemporary plight. Last year’s Cyber Security...
HEAnet is committed to continuously improve internet security and protect its clients. The latest improvement is the usage of RPKI-based BGP route origin validation on its IP network identified as AS1213. The recent Safer Internet Day was a good...