Excellent. NewsOK reports: State Auditor Nicole Galloway on Wednesday announced the launch of a cybersecurity audit initiative in Missouri schools. The initiative will focus on identifying practices that improve the security of information that schools have on students and their families. Read more on NewsOK.
Category: Education Sector
Ca: Data breach turns into MLA laugh-fest
Les Leyne writes: Lovely to see how the latest data-privacy breach moved from a dramatic crisis to light entertainment in the space of a week. The news that the Education Ministry had misplaced a data drive packed with sensitive information about school kids was treated like an Amber Alert when the government ’fessed up to…
NC: High school students charged with hacking into school computers
So simple a child could do it? Fox46 reports: Iredell County, NC – Seven high school students were charged in an Iredell County campus computer breach. On Tuesday, September 1, Iredell Statesville School System reported to the sheriff’s office they has been hacked. The school believed the suspects were students at the school. The ISS IT Department quickly…
Hacker Exfocus Blamed For Knocking Rutgers University Offline With DDoS Attack, Even After Expensive Upgrade
Jeff Stone reports: Someone is tormenting Rutgers University. The New Jersey school announced on Monday it was fending off a distributed denial of service attack that crippled its Internet and Wi-Fi access. It’s just the latest cyberattack on a major U.S. research institution, and comes after a number of similar hacks against Rutgers, a school of approximately…
Ca: Police investigate infosecurity breach of University of Calgary’s PeopleSoft system
CTV News reports: The employee records of a number of University of Calgary staff members were fraudulently accessed, and banking records altered, during an ‘isolated breach’ that is being investigated by the Calgary Police Service. In a letter to University of Calgary staff, Linda Dalgetty, vice president of finance and services, says 29 employee records…
KY: North Oldham High School student data potentially compromised after employee falls for phishing attempt
Allison Ross reports: North Oldham High School is alerting 2,800 current and former students that a data breach earlier this month could have exposed their names, social security numbers and other personal information. On Sept. 10, an outside scammer breached a computer after a nutrition services staff member at the school “ended up at a website…