Stephen F. Austin State University in East Texas is still recovering from a cyber attack that disrupted online services and email for students and faculty. Students express frustration over the impact on their summer courses.
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Macie Torres is earning her early childhood education degree online at SFA while also working as a special education paraprofessional in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She said she signed up for five summer courses this year because she was on vacation from her job and could devote more time to focus on her classes and lab work.
Since then, the University of Texas System has helped SFA investigate and respond to the attack. SFA is in the midst ofafter the Texas Legislature recently approved legislation allowing the independent university to join the UT system. Garner referred questions to law enforcement about whether the university was asked to make any kind of payment to unlock its systems., a cybersecurity company in the United Kingdom, higher education globally has seen an increase in ransomware attacks over the past few years. The report also found that higher education institutions recover from such attacks at a slower rate than other sectors surveyed, with 40% of survey respondents saying it took more than a month for them to fully recover.
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