Thousands of students, teachers and administrators had information stolen from the Baltimore City Public Schools system during a ransomware attack in February.
The Vocational Training Center, or Berufsbildungszentrum (BBZ), in the canton of Schaffhausen reported a ransomware attack, making it the latest in a wave against German-speaking schools and universities.
GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is rolling out a free service that will help protect schools from connecting to malicious internet domains.
Microsoft's education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union. Privacy
The Danish data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has issued an injunction regarding student data being funneled to Google through the use of Chromebooks and Google Workspace services in the country's schools.
Hackers infiltrated networks of at least two colleges over the last week, disrupting the schools during the season of final exams and commencement ceremonies.
Tennessee’s Chattanooga State Community College has been responding to a cyberattack since Saturday, forcing the school to cancel classes on Monday and modify schedules for staff members. The school serves more than 11,000 students.
It took two years of middle school girls accusing their Minneapolis English teacher of eyeballing their bodies in a “weird creepy way,” for district investigators to substantiate their complaints.
Their drawn-out response is revealed in confidential and highly sensitive Minneapolis Public Schools investigative records that are now readily available online — just one folder in a trove of tens of thousands of leaked files that outline campus rape cases, child abuse inquiries, student mental health crises and suspension reports.
L'uso di piattaforme didattiche fornite da Google e Microsoft nelle scuole italiane solleva interrogativi sullo scambio di dati con gli Stati Uniti, al centro di un braccio di ferro tra Washington e la Commissione europea. E per il ministero dell'Istruzione il problema è delle scuole
Confidential details including child passport scans and SEN data is published online, the BBC finds.
Vice Society, a ransomware gang, has been involved in high-profile activity against schools this year.
Zimperium zLabs has discovered a new Android threat campaign, the Schoolyard Bully Trojan, which has been active since 2018 and has spread to over 300,000 victims and is specifically targeting Facebook credentials. To learn more about this new threat, read more on our blog.
Public schools in two Michigan counties are reopening on Thursday after a ransomware attack crippled their ability to function and closed doors to students for three days.
All of the public schools in Jackson and Hillsdale counties announced their reopening on Thursday in letters to parents, assuring them that cybersecurity experts, tech officials and law enforcement worked around the clock to restore the systems following outages that began on Monday.
Microsoft tied hackers with the Vice Society ransomware gang to several ransomware strains on Tuesday, noting that the group has been behind a wave of attacks on primary schools and colleges across the world.
