Fake Student Fraud in Community Colleges

Reporting on the rise of fake students enrolling in community college courses: The bots' goal is to bilk state and federal financial aid money by enrolling in classes, and remaining enrolled in them, long enough for aid disbursements to go out. They often accomplish this by submitting AI-generate...

colleges-uk.co.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3834008

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

mypart1.superiorcolleges.edu.pk Open Redirect vulnerability OBB-3752710

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Vice Society: The #1 cyberthreat to schools, colleges, and universities

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes' ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. In this report, "known attacks" are those where the victim didn't pay a ransom. This provides the best overall picture of...

The door is open for anyone to become a cyber defender

Throughout Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Microsoft has highlighted the importance of cybersecurity and provided resources to help people and organizations stay safe. It’s great to have this month as a reminder, and even better if that awareness becomes a year-round endeavor. Education is really...

The door is open for anyone to become a cyber defender

Throughout Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Microsoft has highlighted the importance of cybersecurity and provided resources to help people and organizations stay safe. It’s great to have this month as a reminder, and even better if that awareness becomes a year-round endeavor. Education is really...

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

The 911 service as it exists today. For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe -- but...

Hackers Selling US Colleges VPN Credentials on Russian Forums- FBI

By Waqas The network credentials and VPN access information were mainly acquired through ransomware, spear-phishing, and other cyberattacks. According to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Selling US Colleges VPN Credentials on Russian Forums- FBI...

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, ...

Applicants data of 3 elite US colleges hacked for ransom

By Ryan De Souza Recently it was reported that Chinese hackers are aiming to target around 26 leading research academies to steal research about maritime technology, the majority of which happen to be based in the USA. In the same week, three mainstream private colleges have claimed that their...

studentportal.enderuncolleges.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-483743 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| studentportal.enderuncolleges.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Disclosure Standard:|...

Weak password vulnerability in digital learning platforms for vocational institutions

The digital learning platform for vocational colleges and universities is an all-round and personalized informatization solution for school education and corporate learning provided by Beijing Huidong Times Technology Co. There is a weak password vulnerability in the Digital Learning Platform for...

June 23, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Grizzly Bear” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! June 23, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Top 10 Endpoint Detection a...

Reflective and Stored Cross-Site Footing Vulnerabilities in the Foreign Studies Digital English Platform

iTEST is a comprehensive test management platform that provides English test bank resources and online assessment services for colleges and universities. Reflected and stored cross-site footing vulnerabilities exist in the Digital English Platform of the Foreign Research Institute. Attackers use...

Huiwen opac of the library back door leads to the source of the leak

0x00 description Hui Wen libsys library opac system is a colleges and universities to use more of the system, the user has Xiamen University, Nanjing University, Dalian Polytechnic University, Nankai University and many other schools. The system used is Oracle + the php, not from public contact t...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Magazine System

Magazine System is a newspaper and magazine software designed for colleges and universities. The product suffers from an SQL injection vulnerability, which can be exploited by an attacker to obtain sensitive information from the database...

SA-CONTRIB-2013-066 - Monster Menus - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Monster Menus enables you to create granular page permissions, and apply them to a hierarchical page structure. The mmwebform submodule enables you to assign permissions derived from Monster Menus to webform forms. The module doesn't sufficiently filter titles entered into page settings and echoe...

California Joins Ban on Employers Demanding Social Media Access

California today joined two other states making it a crime for employers and colleges to ask applicants or workers for their social media login information in order to access their private Web sites. The new laws — one for companies and one for colleges — go into effect Jan. 1, 2013. Gov. Jerry...

Blekko Challenges Google, Yahoo, Bing for Search Engine Share

After Google and Bing, Blekko, a new search engine, has officially opened its doors to welcome us. Developers guarantee accurate search results while leaving behind spammers. Results are displayed from high quality sites with rich content. The intelligent search engine, Blekko, displays search...

ExLibris Aleph and Metalib Cross Site Scripting Attack

ExLibris Aleph and Metalib Cross Site Scripting Attack ------------------------------------------------------ Matthew Cook Date 16/07/2007 http://escarpment.net/ http://escarpment.net/exlibris.txt Attack: Multiple versions of the ExLibris http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/ Aleph and Metalib products a...