This article is linked to a series of articles about different types of Cyber Attacks. They can be viewed in the Information/Cyber Security News section of the Data Protection Education website or as part of the Information & Cyber Security Best Practice Area. Each article discusses a different type of cyber attack, steps to try to minimise the risk and guidance

With the increase in Cyber crime against schools in the UK we are focusing in on what can be done to help prevent cyber crime in a way mangeable for school budgets.

Given the current financial pressure on schools it is very likely there are devices in schools running out of date software.  This article looks at the most recent version of Windows that support has ended for, what that means and why upgrades are a must. 

In this edition of cyber news roundup, we’ll be looking at the continuing cyber threat to health and education sectors, the risks that app stores pose to users, and 2021’s most exploited vulnerabilities.

2022 Security Breach Report Published

The Cyber Security Breaches Survey for 2022 has recently been published by The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport- the full version of which you can find by clicking here.

Organisations in Ukraine are the target of Destructive Malware

Agencies in the US and Australia have published alerts in response to a recent increase in cyber threats to organisations in Ukraine, stating that organisations should take steps to mitigate the threat that currently exists from destructive malware.

Microsoft Azure Breach Leads to Student Data Exposure 

Researchers and Clario published a report which outlined how an open Microsoft Azure repository indexed by a public search engine which needed no authentication had been found.

The NCSC has provided some insight and guidance changes on Security practices in the past week which will be the topic of this week’s cyber update. Below is a summary of their guidance, with some additional resources.

With cyber threats increasing every month, we’ll be looking to provide weekly updates on the different cyber security threats that have taken place recently to highlight all the different ways in which our data can be accessed by those wishing to do harm.

A recent study conducted by Check Point Research which can be found at the bottom of this article has found that there has been a 29% increase in cyberattacks on organisations in the education sector since 2020, the highest increase of any sector. 

As we’ve spoken about before in past articles, since the pandemic there has been a worrying increase in cyber attacks, with the education sector seeing the highest increase and total number of attacks. Our article on this can be read on our news page.

With cyberthreats becoming an increasingly worrying issue for organisations and the security of the data they hold, we thought it would be beneficial to write a weekly cyber security threat report