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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.

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Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Security Affairs

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. What should we learn from this?

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Russian cybercrime group likely behind ongoing exploitation of PaperCut flaws

Security Affairs

The company received two vulnerability reports from the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro ) for high/critical severity security issues in PaperCut MF/NG. Trend Micro announced they will disclose further information (TBD) about the vulnerability on 10th May 2023. com, was registered on April 12, 2023. Last week, the U.S.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Security enthusiast and Linux evangelist Binni Shah consistently offers valuable tutorials, guides, and insights for the cybersecurity community. Binni Shah | @binitamshah.

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Canadian Privacy Commissioner Issues Report on Children’s Educational Apps

Hunton Privacy

Recently, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) issued its 2017 Global Privacy Enforcement Network Sweep results (the “Report”), which focused on certain privacy practices of online educational tools and services targeted at classrooms.

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Five reasons why law firms should adopt ISO 27001

IT Governance

Robust information security practices are critical to the legal sector – yet there is a notable gabetween the risks that firms face and their ability to mitigate them. Every law firm faces information security risks. Information security is not just about technology.

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

GCIS was a Davos-level conference with no vendors and no selling, where scores of chief security information officers (CISOs), top CEO’s, industry and government thought leaders and leading innovators discussed the myriad challenges in and around cybersecurity and possible solutions in today’s environment. According to the U.S.