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News and information from the Advent IM team.
The UK’s education sector continues to be hit by spiraling ransomware attacks, which can cost affected organizations in excess of £2m per incident, according to a new Jisc report. Read via Info Sec Magazine
Read MoreOnline classes are cancelled as every IT system is taken down by the attack Read via ItProPortal.
Read MoreThe UK’s Open University has been targeted with over 1 million malicious email attacks from January to September this year, according to official figures obtained by the think tank Parliament Street following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
Read MoreFormer students at universities in York, Birmingham, Newcastle, London, Reading, Surrey and Wales have also been affected. Read story via Kristian Johnson in Leeds Live
Read MoreAt least six universities in the UK and Canada have had student data stolen after hackers attacked a cloud computing provider. Read story by Joe Tidy & Leo Kelion for BBC
Read MoreThe accidental breach, which exposed some students’ reasons for intermission and their disabilities, will be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Read story by Joe Cook in Varsity
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