{"id":6671,"date":"2020-09-17T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2020-09-17T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:42:36","slug":"wk-4-universities-face-increase-in-ransomware-attacks-as-students-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/2020\/09\/17\/wk-4-universities-face-increase-in-ransomware-attacks-as-students-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Wk #4: Universities Face Increase in Ransomware Attacks as Students Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">In the UK, educational institutions have been the target of many ransomware attacks. Due to the pandemic, there has been a heavy surge of reliance on using technology. Hackers are taking advantage of these circumstances and recent incidents have &#8220;observed more remote desktop protocols, unpatched software\/hardware being utilized, and use of phishing emails to deploy ransomware&#8221;. They have also sabotaged any chances of backups or auditing devices that can be used to recover stolen data by encrypting virtual servers and using shell environments to deploy attacks. The complexity and scope of devices and environments colleges use makes it extremely difficult to monitor the system as a whole. The National Cyber Security Centre advises these institutions to have better vulnerability management and patching procedures, also to have safety protocols such as multi-factor authentication, enabling anti-virus, and phishing prevention training.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/universities-ransomware-attacks\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, educational institutions have been the target of many ransomware attacks. Due to the pandemic, there has been a heavy surge of reliance on using technology. Hackers are taking advantage of these circumstances and recent incidents have &#8220;observed more remote desktop protocols, unpatched software\/hardware being utilized, and use of phishing emails to deploy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14985,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6673,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}