A Birmingham college was forced to close this week due to a “major ransomware attack” affecting many of its core IT systems. The nature of the attack still not confirmed. The Cybersecurity expert commented below on the danger of ransomware in light of this incident.
1/3 TEMPORARY CAMPUS CLOSURES❗️The college has suffered a major ransomware attack on our IT system, which has disabled many of our core systems. Our campus buildings will therefore be CLOSED TO STUDENTS for a week from Monday 15 March to allow our IT specialists to fix the issue.
— @southandcitycol (@southandcitycol) March 13, 2021
Executive Summary This vulnerability is currently undergoing analysis and not all information is available. Please check back soon to view the completed vulnerability summary Informations Name CVE-2021-30081 First vendor Publication 2021-05-24 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-05-24 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA…
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