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Wilkes-Barre Career and Technical Center averts catastrophe from cyberattack

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Dissent

They could have headlined this story as “Good security practices pay off.”

Michael P. Buffer reports:

A cyber attack on a server at the Wilkes-Barre Career and Technical Center was discovered Wednesday, and antivirus and backup procedures “prevented a catastrophe” and “a lot of problems,” Administrative Director Anthony C. Guariglia said Thursday.

The regional vo-tech high school in Plains Twp. shut down its computer and Wi-Fi network, along with all computers, on Wednesday and used a flexible instruction day to provide remote instruction to students on Thursday, Guariglia said.

[…]

School information-technology staff is working with law enforcement and Computer Visionaries Inc. to determine who is responsible for the cyber attack and how it happened, Guariglia said.

Read more at GovTech.

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