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Silent Librarian cyberattackers are switching up tactics in a phishing scheme bent on stealing student credentials.

Cobalt Dickens (a.k.a. Silent Librarian) is now actively targeting 380 universities, bent on stealing credentials and moving deeper into school networks.

Podcast on student privacy. No transcript.

One of the hardest things about trying to bridge two worlds--for instance, open source communities and academic institutions--is all the stuff you don't hear on a daily basis when you're working remotely. Sometimes it takes several rounds of garlic bread and pasta for people to begin articulating what's blocking them from teaching their students how to participate in FOSS communities. Sebastian Dziallas and I sat down last weekend at the 2010 Frontiers in Education conference with a group of professors from the Teaching Open Source community. "What are the biggest blockers that you're facing in doing this," we asked, "that people in the open source world just don't know about or understand?" Here are their answers.

On April 15, The Mercury reported that UT Dallas is planning to install Amazon Echo Dots in Residence Hall South this summer, with the long-term aim of installing Echo Dots in every residence hall.…

About 50 colleges are facing lawsuits alleging their websites are not accessible to individuals with disabilities. One out of every five are in NY.

Students wanting into one of Shiru's innovative members-only locations must give up their privacy, but might get something very valuable in return

*** FAQs will be updated at the bottom of the page*** Last FAQ update, Thursday 6 June, 1.50pm What was taken? We believe personal data belonging to staff, visitors, students dating back 19 years was accessed, including: Names Addresses Phone numbers Dates of birth Emergency contact details Tax file numbers Payroll information Bank account details Student academic records Student academic transcripts Systems that store credit cards, travel arrangements, police history checks, workers’ compensation, some performance development records or medical records have not been affected.

The North Dakota Student Association has been working on a “Student Data Privacy and Security Bill of Rights.”Student Association president Jared Melville…

Student orgs can get cardswipe info. Y-I-K-E-S.

Duke MTMC is a dataset of surveillance camera footage of students on Duke University campus

For years, according to intelligence experts and eight current and former Saudi students interviewed by the PBS NewsHour, the Saudi government has closely monitored them when they leave to study in the U.S.

Unwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life—and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them.

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Before this week, Stanford students could view the Common Applications and high school transcripts of other students if they first requested to view their own admission documents under FERPA.