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Rasputin has danced around the defenses of organizations from NYU and Oxford to the Oklahoma state government. Rasputin, believed to be a Russian hacker, is most well-known for the December 2016 attack against the US Electoral Assistance Commission through an unpatched SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability. At the time, the hacker offered to sell access to the system to a Middle Eastern broker, and according to researchers, the hacker is also attempting to sell access to systems he has compromised in his latest round of attacks. Rasputin's latest victims, revealed by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, span across both the United Kingdom and the United States. Universities are a top target, with Cornell University, the New York University (NYU), Purdue University, Michigan State University, the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Washington among those affected in the US. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities
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Roughly 15,000 students in Sachem School District in Long Island may have had personal data compromised when information was posted to a local online forum. How many victims? Roughly 15,000. What type of personal information? Posted on the forum was a list of 15,000 names with student ID numbers and school lunch designations, student records on 360 students who graduated Sachem High School East in 2008, and a report relating to approximately 130 students who attended Sachem High School North who were receiving instructional services in an alternate setting in the 2010-2011 year, the district confirmed.
The names, addresses, employee identification numbers (UD IDs), and social security numbers of 72,000 current and former employees, including student employees, have been stolen from the systems of the University of Delaware.
Stanford University has announced that its computer system was hacked and officials are urging users of the school network to change their passwords. A hacker who goes by the moniker Ag3nt47 has claimed responsibility. Stanford University has announced that its computer system was hacked, and ===> officials are urging users of the schoolnetwork to change their passwords. <=== School officials are working with law enforcement to determine specifics of the attack. They have yet to figure out how significant it was.
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TeamSHATTER reports on data breaches in the higher education vertical throughout the United States.
The past year has seen a substantial uptick in the amount of total records breached. In 2012, there was a dramatic increase in the total number of reported records affected (1,977,412), but a relatively low amount of institutions (51) that reported breaches. In fact, the past year has seen the most reported compromised records in the higher education sector since 2006, based on data since tracking began in 2005.
Four leading UK universities for Computer Science are taking part in a code-breaking competition as part of Cyber Security Challenge UK 2013
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Universities face unique challenges keeping their servers and networks secure from cyber-criminals while accommodating the influx of student and faculty-owned devices each year. A recent analysis of online transaction data highlighted to what extent some universities have already been compromised. ThreatMetrix, a provider of anti-cybercrime prevention solutions, found that cyber-criminals had already infiltrated networks belonging to major educational institutions including New York University, George Mason University, Harvard University, Purdue University, and University of California in Irvine, Alisdair Faulkner, chief product officer at ThreatMetrix, told SecurityWeek. ThreatMextrix looked at all the data collected by its systems in September and filtered out only IP addresses that corresponded to university networks for this analysis, Faulkner said. Read more, a MUST: http://www.securityweek.com/cybercriminals-increasingly-attacking-university-networks?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Securityweek+(SecurityWeek+RSS+Feed)&utm_content=Google+Reader
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URI took a publicly available server offline after a breach compromised the information of faculty and students. University of Rhode Island (URI) officials disabled the school's College of Business Administration computer server, after the personal information of more than 1,000 faculty and students, as well as students from another school, was publicly available. How many victims? About 1,000 current and former URI faculty members, in addition to 22 former students of the university and 80 students from an unnamed out-of-state school. What type of personal information? The names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and some compensation information of faculty members. Former URI students had their Social Security numbers and names exposed, while students from the out-of-state school had their grades, names and Social Security numbers posted to the server. Read more: http://www.scmagazine.com/university-of-rhode-island-server-breach-exposes-staff-and-student-data/article/256398/
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Late on January 10, the hacktivism entity Anonymous hacked and defaced MIT letting the institution know Anonymous will not forget the tragic suicide of hacker Aaron Swartz.
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Employees of Missouribased Saint Louis University fell victim to a phishing email that resulted in them providing account information, subsequently putting thousands at risk. How many victims? More than 3,200 individuals were impacted. What type of personal information? Names, Social Security numbers, direct deposit information and personal health information, including diagnoses, procedures and medical chart information.
Yet more passwords need changing, as America's prestigious Stanford University joins the long line of recent data breach victims. Although specific details remain scarce, an announcement from the u...
Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigans Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a thirdparty vendor. Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a third-party vendor. How many victims? More than 33,000.
What type of personal information? Names, street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers and expiration dates.
What happened? The database supplied by third-party ticketing solution provider Vendini was compromised by hackers who may have stolen the personal information of any U of M customer in the last two years. What was the response? University officials have contacted all individuals affected by the breach.
Details: How the hackers were able to compromise the Vendini systems is currently unknown. According toa statement released by the company, the stolen information does not include credit card security access codes, account user names or passwords.
Oxford University has taken the radical step of temporarily blocking access to Google Docs after a dramatic increase in phishing attacks trying to harvest academic email credentials using bogus forms hosted on the service.
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The UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has begun recruiting talent from top universities in an attempt to tighten up cyber-security with...
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Rasputin, believed to be a Russian hacker, is most well-known for the December 2016 attack against the US Electoral Assistance Commission through an unpatched SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability.
At the time, the hacker offered to sell access to the system to a Middle Eastern broker, and according to researchers, the hacker is also attempting to sell access to systems he has compromised in his latest round of attacks.
Rasputin's latest victims, revealed by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, span across both the United Kingdom and the United States.
Universities are a top target, with Cornell University, the New York University (NYU), Purdue University, Michigan State University, the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Washington among those affected in the US.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities