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University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers
A Canadian university has paid hackers to restore access to data they had turned into the digital equivalent of gibberish. The University of Calgary transferred 20,000 Canadian dollars-worth of bitcoins ($15,780; £10,840) after it was unable to unwind damage caused by a type of attack known as ransomware. The malware...
Garissa university attack plotter ‘dead’
The leader of the attack on Garissa University in Kenya has been killed, officials in Somalia say. Kenya's government said Mohamed Kuno was behind the attack in April 2015 that killed 148 people. Regional forces in Somalia said Kuno was one of 16 people killed in a raid overnight in Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia....
Bangladeshi university professor hacked to death in Rajshahi
A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to killings of secular bloggers and atheists by suspected Islamist extremists. AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was a professor of English at Rajshahi University in the country's north-west. He was attacked with machetes as he...
University tells students Britain ‘invaded’ Australia
A top Australian university has rejected claims it is trying to rewrite the nation's colonial history. Students are being encouraged to use the term "invaded" rather than "settled" or "discovered", and avoid the word "Aborigines". The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Indigenous...
Pakistan Charsadda: Gun battle at Bacha Khan university
Security forces in north-west Pakistan are battling militants inside a university in the town of Charsadda, with reports of several deaths. Police said two gunmen had been killed but others were thought to be holding out in campus buildings at Bacha Khan University as shooting continued. Some students have been rescued, Deputy...