The San Diego Community College District reported system outages after an attempted cyber attack that began over the weekend. District officials said the incident was detected immediately and, as a safeguard, they took internet, email, websites, web-based phones, and student registration systems offline. The district includes San Diego City, Mesa, Miramar, and Continuing Education colleges. For higher education operations, the action underscores how quickly campus IT and student services can be disrupted when attackers target authentication and registration systems. The incident also elevates risk around continuity of enrollment services, communications to students, and recovery timelines—especially if student registration and advising depend on the same systems that were shut down as a protective measure.