Herald Tribune reports: On Tuesday, School District of Manatee County officials will ask the school board to approve a $300,000 settlement to a class action lawsuit being brought by school district employees who say they suffered damages from a massive data breach last January. On Jan. 26, 2017 a payroll employee responded to an email…
Category: Education Sector
UK: Former council worker fined for sharing personal information about schoolchildren and parents via Snapchat
From the what-the-HELL-were-they-thinking department: A former local authority education worker who illegally shared personal information about schoolchildren and their parents has been prosecuted. Samira Bouzkraoui, 24, took a screenshot of a council spreadsheet concerning children and their eligibility for free school meals before sending it to the estranged parent of one of the pupils via…
Higher Ed Users Are Less Susceptible to Phishing Scams
Meghan Bogardus Cortez reports: University end users are pretty good at identifying a scam. Only 10 percent of simulated phishing emails sent to users at education institutions were successful, a new study from Wombat Security Technologies reports. The company monitored tens of millions of simulated phishing attacks sent over the course of a year through…
PA: Purchase Line SD officials discuss cybersecurity after incident
Patrick Cloonan reports: Officials in the Purchase Line School District are looking to avoid a repeat of a recent case of theft by deception that targeted the district’s emails and approximately 100 of its vendors. […] Their move is the latest in a series of steps taken since Jan. 31 when, as described by Superintendent…
Ca: Student Transportation Services of Central Ontario plans security audit after breach of student personal information in Peterborough area
Joelle Kovach reports: The agency that co-ordinates busing for schools in the Peterborough area has arranged for a security audit after it accidentally allowed public access to a database of student contact and busing information through social media. Joel Sloggett, CAO of Student Transportation Services of Central Ontario (STSCO), said Wednesday that the personal information…
UGA student accused of hacking account to change grades
Joe Johnson reports: A University of Georgia student is facing 80 felony counts for allegedly hacking into a professor’s computer to change his grades. Michael Lamon Williams, 21, was booked into the Clarke County Jail Wednesday on nine counts of computer trespass and 71 counts of computer forgery. Williams, a student of UGA’s Terry College…