The advent of Internet-connected school classrooms has given rise to new dangerous online threats, despite the fact that they have transformed the learning process in schools all over Australia, according to a new report.

Following a high level of systemic security breaches in 2018, security incidents will keep getting worse in 2019 with identify theft, phishing scams and personal data breaches hitting a new high, according to predictions from one global VPN service provider.

Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group says it has discovered similar vulnerabilities in the NordVPN and ProtonVPN clients for Windows, which allow an ordinary user to run commands as an administrator.