The Register – You don’t need a PhD to phish a Brit university: Nonprofit claims 100% hit rate is easy peasy
British university admin folk are alarmingly easy to phish, according to an academic support body which claims a 100 per cent success rate “within two hours”.
BleepingComputer – Info on over 500.000 students and staff exposed in San Diego School District hack.
Personal information belonging to over half a million students … may have been compromised in a data breach incident. An unauthorized person baited the staff with phishing emails to collect credentials to log into the district’s network services.
Secureworks – Back to School: COBALT DICKENS Targets Universities
Universities are attractive targets for threat actors interested in obtaining intellectual property. In addition to being more difficult to secure than heavily regulated finance or healthcare organizations, universities are known to develop cutting-edge research and can attract global researchers and students.
Engadget – California teen phished his teachers to change grades
Phishing attacks have been a key part of some of the most high-profile hacks in recent years, but they’re also used in smaller, less diabolical schemes as well. KTVU reports that a student at Ygnacio Valley High School in California used a phishing scam to access the school district’s computer system and change a number […]
