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Authorities believe the Miami Dade school district experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack (see illustration). Designed to overwhelm the bandwidth of the targeted system. There are two types of DoS attacks: One is designed to crash services and the other is designed to flood services. The most serious attack is distributed. [1]
Microsoft Security Intelligence has said there are more attacks on schools and school districts than any other industry. [1] There were 348 reported cyberattacks on school districts in 2019. School districts were allocating millions of dollars for their computer systems to support virtual learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 2 ]
Some K-12 public schools are racing to improve protection against the threat of online attacks, but lax cybersecurity means thousands of others are vulnerable to ransomware gangs that can steal ...
Using publicly available reports, K12 SIX identified at least 325 ransomware attacks on school districts across the United States between April 2016 and the end of November 2022.
Attack patterns – computer science concept regarding group of rigorous methods for finding bugs or errors in code related to computer security; Black hat (computer security) – Computer hacker with malicious intent; Cyberattacks against infrastructure; Cyberattacks by country
GAINESVILLE – Hackers broke into the computer network of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice in Tallahassee, which runs the state's juvenile detention centers and programs to steer ...
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
The growth of web threats is a result of the popularity of the Web – a relatively unprotected, widely and consistently used medium that is crucial to business productivity, online banking, and e-commerce as well as the everyday lives of people worldwide. The appeal of Web 2.0 applications and websites increases the vulnerability of the Web.