KATC reports that the Governor’s office has released a follow-up on a ransomware attack that hit five school districts in July. The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) today released details about this summer’s cyber attack on Louisiana school systems. As we reported this summer , several school systems were offline after a…
Category: Education Sector
Southeast Missouri State University email gaffe breaches privacy
Zach Tate reports in the student newspaper of Southeast Missouri State University: On Oct. 4, an email including information from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences leaked private information about students, faculty and staff members to approximately 50 Southeast communication students. The email was sent with personally identifiable information (PII) to the communication students…
NYS Comptroller releases IT audit of True North Rochester Preparatory Charter School
One day, I’ll read an IT audit from NYS Comptroller DiNapoli and will smile at the good report. Today is not that day, however. The following is a summary of the audit of of True North Rochester Preparatory Charter School. According to the state, “the School’s IT network and assets are managed by an IT…
AU: Tech start-up apologizes to students after potential data breach
Bianka Farmakis reports: Online events promotions company Get has apologised for potentially exposing the names, phone numbers and email addresses of up to 50,000 Australian university students in a data breach. Read more on 9News.
Ransomware attack cripples San Bernardino City Unified School District’s computer system
KABC reports that as of yesterday, the San Bernardino City Unified School District was still having issues gaining access to its computer network after it was hit in a ransomware attack. A pop-up message was displaying on the district’s website, which stated that student and parent data was secure, school phone lines are working, but…
Blame uni’s lax security for data leak, says UM hacker
There’s more on the University of Malay breach noted yesterday. MalaysiaKini is reporting: MrX’, which claimed to be the hacker who yesterday dumped vast amounts of personal data belonging to University of Malaya (UM) staff, said the varsity is to blame for the data breach due to its lax online security. “Guess who? Security is…