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With $5.5 trillion in global AI risk exposure and 700,000 U.S. workers needing reskilling, four new AI certifications and Certified CISO v4 help close the gap between AI adoption and workforce readiness
Intentionally vulnerable training applications are widely used for security education, internal testing, and product demonstrations. Tools such as OWASP Juice Shop, DVWA, Hackazon, and bWAPP are designed to be insecure by default, making them useful for learning how common attack techniques work in controlled environments
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations related to an incident in 2021 that exposed info of 10 million students. [...]
Researcher Gjoko Krstic’s "Project Brainfog" exposed hundreds of zero-day vulnerabilities in building-automation systems still running hospitals, schools, and offices worldwide.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against education software company PowerSchool, which suffered a massive data breach in December that exposed the personal information of 62 million students, including over 880,000 Texans. [...]
CyCognito research finds that a third of education sector APIs, web apps and cloud assets are exposed to attack
SSNs, payment details, and health info too The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) says a July 2024 "security incident" exposed sensitive personal data on more than half a million individuals, including financial and health info.…
Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack. [...]
Ransomware attacks on US schools and colleges have surged, with 491 incidents since 2018, affecting over 8000 institutions
Nearly 50 different data points were accessed by cybercrim An Arizona tech school will send letters to 208,717 current and former students, staff, and parents whose data was exposed during a January break-in that allowed an attacker to steal nearly 50 types of personal info.…
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack on its software testing environment and is now investigating whether any personal information was exposed. [...]
Western Sydney University (WSU) has notified students and academic staff about a data breach after threat actors breached its Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint environment. [...]
Comparitech said 2023 was a record year for breaches with 954 reported, up from 139 in 2022 and 783 in 2021
"Hundreds" of special education students' psych records have turned up on the Dark Web. School records like these are covered by FERPA, not HIPAA, so parents have little recourse.
Educator gets an F for security Misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 buckets belonging to McGraw Hill exposed more than 100,000 students' information as well as the education publishing giant's own source code and digital keys, according to security researchers.…
Chegg it out: Four blunders in four years Sloppy data security at education tech giant Chegg exposed students and workers' personal information not once but four times in various ways over four years, according to the FTC. …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued education technology company Chegg after it exposed the sensitive information of tens of millions of customers and employees in four data breaches suffered since 2017. [...]
Network credentials and virtual private network (VPN) access for colleges and universities based in the U.S. are being advertised for sale on underground and public criminal marketplaces
The Chicago Public Schools has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the data of almost 500,000 students and 60,000 employee after their vendor, Battelle for Kids, suffered a ransomware attack in December. [...]
The FritzFrog botnet that's been active for more than two years has resurfaced with an alarming infection rate, growing ten times in just a month of hitting healthcare, education, and government systems with an exposed SSH server. [...]