Martin Matishak reports: A deal to reopen the U.S. government would also renew an expired cybersecurity information sharing law until the end of January. The Senate on Sunday advanced legislation to end a weeks-long shutdown stalemate that includes a provision to reauthorize the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act through January 30. The law, which incentivizes…
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Manassas City Public Schools close on Monday due to cyberattack
Alan Henney reports: Manassas City Public Schools (MCPS) are closed on Monday due to a cybersecurity incident that has led to connectivity disruptions and phone outages across the school system, officials said. Dr. Kevin Newman, MCPS superintendent, said in a post on Facebook on Sunday that all MCPS schools will be closed on Monday, November…
Defense Contractors Are Silencing Their Cybersecurity Watchdogs
Matthew LaGarde writes: The US Department of Defense’s implementation of a new cybersecurity framework, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 or CMMC, will require more than 300,000 military contracting companies to improve their cybersecurity protections. These safeguards are critically important, but it appears that more than half of military contractors are unprepared to meet these new requirements…
Fourth Circuit Weighs in on Standing in Data Breach Class Actions
Alexander Busse, Jessica Fuhrman, Elizabeth Hudson, Ian Jones, Francis Nolan IV, and Valerie Strong Sanders of Eversheds Sutherland write: One of the hotly litigated issues in data breach class action litigation is whether plaintiffs in these actions have standing under Article III of the US Constitution. For a complaint to survive, the plaintiff must allege…
ALT5 Sigma sues former consultant over alleged data breach
Here is today’s reminder of the insider threat. Street Insider reports: ALT5 Sigma Corporation filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court on November 4 against Wellington Peel, LLC, Jean-Francois Amyot, Hugues Benoit and Prime Delta Corp., seeking a temporary restraining order and injunctive relief related to alleged unauthorized access of company information. The company discovered…
Breaking Up With Edtech Is Hard to Do
Ellen Ullman reports: When Kerri Wall’s school district decided not to renew its five-year contract with an edtech company last spring, she didn’t expect the hardest part to come after the breakup. As the senior digital innovation administrator for the School District of Indian River County in Florida — and designated student data privacy officer…