The State of Ransomware in Education 2025
441 IT and cybersecurity share their ransomware experiences, revealing the realities facing lower and higher education providers today.
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Bys sGabriela Kennedy, Joanna K.C. Wong, and Roslie Liu of Mayer|Brown write: On 1 January 2026, the Office of the Commissioner of Critical Infrastructure (Computer-system Security) issued a Code of Practice (the “CoP”) under the Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Ordinance (Cap. 653) (the “Ordinance”), which came into force on the same day (see our……
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Heart Centre Cyberattack in Australia, DragonForce Claims Responsibility for Sensitive Data Theft
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