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Texas SB 820 Advances K-12 Cybersecurity Despite Limitations
Like many organizations, K-12 schools adapted to COVID-19 by accelerating their digital transformation journeys. And like everyone else who followed this path, they invited unwanted attention from digital criminals in the process ...
Life360 Selling Location Data, NSO Group Spyware Hacks Government Employees, Homecoming Queen Contest Hacked
Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, is selling location data to a dozen data brokers, phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked with spyware ...
As ransomware attacks rise, US government advice to protect K-12 schools is “vastly outdated”
A recently published report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned that official security guidance from the Department of Education is out-of-date, and needs to be refreshed to address the ...
Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 2
As I had mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a ...
Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 1
As I had mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a ...
Schools Under Cyberattack, Chrome Ad Blocking Update, US Election Interference
In episode 138 for September 14th 2020: School districts under cyber-attack, Google Chrome’s new ad blocking feature, and Microsoft’s latest alert about foreign interference in the 2020 US election. ** Links mentioned ...
Hackers Shame Newcastle University on Twitter After Infecting it with Ransomware
A notorious ransomware gang has taken to Twitter to shame the UK’s Newcastle University after infecting its systems with data-crippling malware. The criminals are threatening to release the university’s data publicly if ...
Social-Engineer Newsletter Vol 09 – Issue 120
Back to School: Education Through Security No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks. We can all remember singing this as we skipped out of school on the last ...
Police Recovered $300K Stolen in Spotslyvania Schools Phishing Attack
Police recovered over $300,000 stolen by phishers from Spotslyvania County Public Schools in Spotslyvania County, Virginia. On 15 August, Virginia State Police announced that it had reclaimed over half the amount of ...
School Network Management. You’ve got your work cut out!
If you’re responsible for school network management at a school, college or university, I don’t envy you. You have a tough job. Not only do you need to keep out the usual ...
