Infosec Institute, a cybersecurity education provider, has launched $225,000 in cybersecurity education scholarship opportunities to help veterans, students and underrepresented groups in security launch and advance...
A third-party data breach has exposed at least 10,000 records held by the British Council, a public sector organization that provides English language courses worldwide. The security incident...
A session hijack vulnerability in the hugely popular e-learning platform Moodle enabled attackers to commandeer any user’s session and achieve remote code execution (RCE), security researchers have revealed....
A novel multi-platform backdoor dubbed SysJoker has been successfully evading security solutions since mid-2021. “In the Linux and macOS versions, it masquerades as a system update....
A Romanian team has ended a run of near misses to be crowned the 2021 winners of Trend Micro’s Raimund Genes Cup. PwnThyBytes finally topped the leaderboard...
A web security flaw in an anti-cheating browser extension created a means to hack into the computers of university students and other users before they were recently patched....
A US school district has warned 50,000 students and employees that their data may have been exposed following a ransomware attack. Broward County School District, in the state...
The US Department of Education and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were urged this week to more aggressively strengthen cybersecurity protections at K-12 schools across the...
A recent Government Accountability Office report dove into how virtual classrooms are increasing vulnerability to ransomware and other cyber threats. With the COVID-19 pandemic thoroughly relegating...
OBITUARY Alan Paller, founder of cybersecurity training organization the SANS Institute, has died, triggering a flood of tributes from the global infosec community. “It is with deep...
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