Advice after Inverclyde schools disrupted due to cyber incident

Advice after Inverclyde schools disrupted due to cyber incident

It has been reported that schools in Inverclyde have been taken offline with access to emails blocked following a “cyber incident”. In response to the news, Ryan McConechy, CTO of Barrier Networks has commented:  “We don’t know what type of cyber incident Inverclyde is facing, but it looks like the websites of many of the schools have been taken down, which suggests the council is actively working to contain the incident. Fortunately, the incide…

User email account compromise sparks internet outage for schools and nurseries in Inverclyde

An apparent phishing attack which compromised a user email account has sparked an internet outage for schools and nurseries in Inverclyde. The education network for the local council was taken offline on Monday to allow cyber response teams to investigate a fraudulent email sent from a member of education staff. Parents had been notified a day earlier to reassure them that physical facilities would be open as usual at the start of the week, and …