CISA: K-12 Cybersecurity Foundations: Implementation Guide

The K-12 Cybersecurity Foundations: Implementation Guide is designed to help schools and districts improve their cyber posture and develop or sustain a reliable and sensible approach to cyber defense. It outlines eight objectives and actionable practices, strategies and tactics to support schools...

CISA: K-12 Cybersecurity Foundations: Getting Started Guide

The K-12 Cybersecurity Foundations: Getting Started Guide serves as a starting point for K-12 schools and districts and provides guidance on implementing fundamental cybersecurity controls, which are measures put in place to protect against and mitigate cyber threats...

CISA: K-12 Cybersecurity Foundations: Objectives and Practices

This one-pager provides an overview of the eight key objectives and associated practices found in the K-12 Cybersecurity Foundations: Implementation Guide. It serves as a quick reference guide for K-12 school and district leaders, IT and cybersecurity personnel, and other K-12 personnel involved ...

Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 continuously evolving their campaigns to achieve sharpened focus on cloud-based tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs. While the threat actor has been known for targeting hybrid cloud environments, their...

Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 continuously evolving their campaigns to achieve sharpened focus on cloud-based tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs. While the threat actor has been known for targeting hybrid cloud environments, their...

Parts of the Dark Web “awash” with school children’s personal data

NBC News has collected and analyzed a trove of childrens personal information it discovered on the Dark Web. Even though this information may not be as useful to cybercriminals as credit card details or login credentials, the information is still out there, where we don’t want it. So what is it,...

Ransomware And Zoom-Bombing: Cyberattacks Disrupt Back-to-School Plans

UPDATE A slew of ransomware attacks and other cyberthreats have plagued back-to-school plans — as if dealing with the pandemic weren’t stressful enough for administrators. Just this week, attacks in Hartford, Conn. and Clark County, Nev. forced public schools to postpone the first day of school, ...

School Districts Are Major Online Crime Targets

In the fall of 2009, districts in Colorado, Illinois, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania all reported thefts of tens of thousands of dollars. The threat continues: on January 5, 2010, the Duanesburg, New York Central School District disclosed an attempted theft of $3.8 million, about a quarter of the...

FBI Reports Malware on Rise in Electronic Funds Fraud

The FBI reports it has seen a rise of malware over the past few months targeting small and medium businesses and municipal government entities and school districts. Once a malicious attachment or link is opened, keylogging tactics obtain bank account info where criminals then initiate wire...