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Education comprises schools, colleges, universities, training providers, and the systems supporting teaching, assessment, administration, and research. Its distinctive assets include student and staff records, attendance and grades, learning materials, research data, payment information, and sometimes sensitive information about children or vulnerable people. Core dependencies include identity systems, email, learning platforms, campus networks, cloud services, online examination tools, and third-party platforms; disruption can affect teaching, assessment, safeguarding, or essential administration.
Security priorities include tightly scoped access for students, staff, contractors, and researchers; strong authentication; timely patching of internet-facing and classroom-managed devices; and careful control of data shared with service providers. Privacy requirements make retention, access logging, and protection of educational and research records material. Because education operates on fixed academic schedules and often has limited recovery windows, tested backups, offline or segregated recovery copies, and rehearsed procedures for isolating accounts or systems can support continuity. Vulnerability management should account for legacy devices and decentralized departmental technology, while incident response plans should preserve evidence and provide clear communications to affected communities.
A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious connections to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose Russian university builds drones for Russia's war against Ukraine.
He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth definitely broke the rules when he sent sensitive information to a Signal chat group, say Pentagon auditors, but he's not the only one using insecure messaging, and everyone needs better training.…
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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. [...]
Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest victim of Clop's smash-and-grab spree against Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) customers, with the Ivy League school now warning more than a thousand individuals that their personal data was siphoned from its systems.…
Regulator says Illuminate ignored years of warnings, stored kids' data in plain text, and kept districts in the dark US edtech provider Illuminate Education just got dinged by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly failing to keep an attacker from pilfering data on 10 million students.…