The Academy Financial Handbook has been updated and renamed as the Academy Trust Handbook. The requirements and guidance within the handbook has been building over recent years, with the update this year emphasising three areas where greater clarity ...
A new programming language ‘Go’ or ‘Golang’ is being used to specifically target schools. Once successfully executed, the Trojan enables remote exfiltration of data and control over systems through undetectable traffic through the firewall. ...
The National Cyber Security Centre (“NCSC”) recently released a formal alert informing schools on yet another increase in ransomware attacks within the education sector in May/June 2021. They have emphasised once more that schools must continue to ...
The FBI has recently identified a primary malware that is designed to target schools. They have been tracking this since March 2020, and in March 2021 they have provided guidance on what steps to take in order to mitigate the risks associated with ...
Cybersecurity can be daunting at the best of times, but it doesn’t have to be. When we speak of the term ‘cybersecurity’, we are actually speaking of a situation when somebody has found vulnerabilities within your organisation’s systems. The ...
The National Cyber Security Centre in the UK updated their guidance on the 23rd March 2021 regarding imminent cyber attacks on education organisations. The trend for attacking education organisations is increasing and unforgiving. School’s need to ...
Recent research from Microsoft suggests that education providers across the world are increasingly falling victim to malware encounters. In January 2021, over 60% of all reported enterprise malware encounters across all industries involved ...
The pandemic has forced teachers and other school staff to work from home and students to take online lessons. This has led to increase in the risk of sensitive data leaking from the school’s network and systems. The cyber criminals have also been ...
Cybercriminals have increasingly shifted their attention to the education sector. As per Microsoft's report of global cyber threat activity, the education sector has been the most attacked industry with 63% of all cyber-attacks directed at the ...
Network hacks have become increasingly frequent in the past few years - especially in schools. The reason being, the less than optimal security frameworks are easy to exploit for cybercriminals and also pays them handsome rewards by selling data or ...
