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Education sector not taking costly cyber attacks seriously
- Friday | 20th September, 2019
Universities, and the education sector in general, appear to have failed to learn the importance of cybersecurity, suffering over five devastating cyber attacks a semester according to a new report. Research by EfficientIP and IDC found that 86% of education sector respondents experienced under the radar Domain Name System (DNS) attacks in the past year, the second-highest across all sectors after government. The attacks on NTU and NUS point to the vulnerability of the education sector in Singapore, especially when the motivation is to steal valuable research. The report also revealed that half of the DNS attacks education institutions experienced last year were phishing-based. If education institutions are going to properly protect themselves and their students, they need smarter countermeasures.
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