article thumbnail

Colorado Warns Ransomware Attack Caused Massive Data Breach

Data Breach Today

Information From 2004 to 2020 Exposed for High School Students, Teachers and Others Colorado's Department of Higher Education is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack in June, in which attackers stole personal data on current and past students and teachers, dating from 2004 to 2020.

article thumbnail

Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

So in 2004, the President of the United States designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Awareness events foster to shape human attitude, enhance a positive culture against cyber threats, and educate businesses and people about protective measures they can take to secure their sensitive personal data: Enable MFA.

article thumbnail

What is information literacy?

CILIP

A lot has changed since 2004 when the first CILIP definition of information literacy was devised. Education ? developing critical thinking skills at all stages of education, from school to higher education. ? It empowers us as citizens to develop informed views and to engage fully with society.? Citizenship ?

article thumbnail

Here’s a Story Where Picking the Right Font Was Never More Important: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Here’s the problem: the farm declaration, dated 2004, was written in Calibri, while the cottage declaration, dated 1995, was written in Cambria. Per Ars Technica , Cambria was designed no earlier than 2004, while Calibri was designed between 2002 and 2004; both only became widely available in 2007. Ordered to repay $5.6

article thumbnail

Steven Sauer to Lead Toshiba Business Solutions

Info Source

to Toshiba in 2004, Sauer became president of TBS New York. Sauer is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Education Owner/President Management Program. “He has consistently and successfully met topline revenue and bottom-line profit objectives while maintaining the highest levels of client satisfaction.”.

Sales 52
article thumbnail

Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

The scale is so massive that it makes up 15 percent of all breached users globally since 2004 (the year data breaches became widespread). Post Covid 19, these patterns are likely to become even more engrained as digitally remote work, education, healthcare and entertainment activities predominate. The data analytics show: •A total 2.3

Security 208