Back to school means back to cybersecurity threats. As we launch into a new school year, security and access concerns—like DDoS attacks, PII protection, and safe account creation—are swirling around like tornados, ready to wreak havoc.
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We all get stuck sometimes! Students, teachers, and everyone in between are presented with challenges in their lives that can seem almost impossible to overcome or think through. It can be difficult to break down an issue and brainstorm solutions.
In today’s digital landscape, hackers and bad actors have developed increasingly sophisticated methods. Their main goal is to steal personal information for malicious purposes and wreak havoc on your system. There are many digital pitfalls.
Digital learning is fantastic for a lot of reasons. (Hello, personalization, learning from anywhere, and gamification!) But hiccups–like forgotten passwords and problems finding apps–eat away at the time teachers and students have for all that awesomeness.
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Beginning July 5, 2023 ClassLink has been monitoring and assisting schools investigate posts of directory data (Posted Directory Data) made on https://breachforums.vc/ by a threat actor named “FentanylTroia”. Collectively, the posts now impact 223+ organizations, nearly all of which are K12 or Higher Ed orgs, and the directory data for 4.5+ million people (for nearly all the institutions, only name and emails were posted, thus the description ‘directory data’… most in the industry do not consider name and email to be ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII)).
SAML signing certificates are essentially SSL certificates that ensure messages come from the expected identity and service providers. SAML certificates authenticate and secure SAML requests, responses, and assertions between software systems.
