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OH: Firelands middle school online classes suspended following ‘Zoom bombing’ incident

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Dissent

Carissa Woytach reports: A Zoom meeting at a Firelands School building was hacked Monday, forcing the building to suspend live online classes. A seventh-grade online class from South Amherst Middle School was hacked, with a person posing as a student joining the meeting displaying pornography on their screen, according to emails sent to parents and…

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NY: Great Neck Yeshiva HS Site Hacked, Anti-Semitic Propaganda Posted

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Dissent

Daniel Hampton reports: The website for a yeshiva high school in Great Neck was down Monday evening following an apparent hack in which anti-Semitic propaganda and racial slurs were reportedly published. Patch confirmed that around 5 p.m., the website for North Shore Hebrew Academy showed the site was “under construction.” Read more on Patch.

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TX: Weslaco ISD network hacked, FBI investigating

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Dissent

Elizabeth Gomez-Patino reports that Weslaco Independent School District was hit with a ransomware attack this morning.  A statement from the district reads: The Weslaco ISD computer network has been attacked by ransomware and the FBI is investigating the matter. We do not know the extent of the attack, and we are working to contain the…

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Baltimore County executive says school officials are refusing to provide information about ransomware attack

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Dissent

Alison Knezevich and Lillian Reed report: Baltimore County school officials have refused to share information with local police, the county attorney and state information technology experts about the catastrophic cyberattack that hit its systems last month, County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. says. In a highly critical letter sent Friday to schools Superintendent Darryl Williams, the…

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TX: Socorro Independent School District’s internal computer network taken down due to virus

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Dissent

Larry Monarrez reports: The Socorro Independent School District has been hit by a computer virus that a spokesman said Friday has prompted their Internet Technology Department to take down the district’s internal network as a precaution until the issue is resolved. No timeline was given as to when the network will be back up and…

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NEW CISA Alert: Cyber Actors Target K-12 Distance Learning Education to Cause Disruptions and Steal Data

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Dissent

Alert (AA20-345A) SUMMARY: This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was coauthored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC assess malicious cyber actors are targeting kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) educational institutions, leading to ransomware attacks, the…

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