The Covid-19 pandemic, noted Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation deputy vice-chancellor and chief innovation officer Prof Dr Vinesh Thiruchelvam, has affected the education sector at all levels.
“However, this rapid shift to complete reliance on technology also meant that the cyber-attacks surface has expanded with an increasing number of higher education institutions in Malaysia made vulnerable,” he told StarEdu.In the United States alone, over 500 types of breaches affected over 13 million data records – the SolarWinds breach being the most common.
“Large corporations are willing to pay the ransom to secure their reputation or image, particularly when they do not have an efficient business continuity plan or a disaster recovery plan in place,” he said, adding that what is more amazing is that even those with no programming or coding skills can deploy cybersecurity attacks, due in part to the easily acquired ransomware attack kits available on the dark web.
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