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CO: Summit School District corrects security breach that leaked student information

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dissent

The Summit Daily reports: Last week Summit School District officials discovered a security issue that made some student and parent information available online. […] The information the parent found came from an internal student data file the district used for automated calls to parents about their children’s negative food account balances. The file contained the…

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MA: Uxbridge student data was on stolen Medicaid billing laptop

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dissent

Susan Spencer reports:  Parents whose children received services in Uxbridge public schools that were partially covered by the state Medicaid program are being encouraged to request a security freeze on their children’s credit reports after a laptop containing personal information was stolen from a Medicaid vendor’s vehicle. Kevin M. Carney, superintendent of schools, sent a…

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Just in Time Research: Data Breaches in Higher Education

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dissent

Just in Time Research: Data Breaches in Higher Education  This “Just in Time” research is in response to recent discussions on the EDUCAUSE Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) discussion list about data breaches in higher education. Using data from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, this research analyzes data breaches attributed to higher education. The results…

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High school computer whiz, 16, criminally charged with hacking grades: A+ for effort?

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dissent

John Luciew reports: One thing is clear, the 16-year-old sophomore at the center of an alleged grade and attendance-record hacking case in Orange, N.J., apparently has some mad computer skills and plenty of smarts for executing elaborate plans. If only the student would apply those academic assets to his or her school work, then perhaps…

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NYC parents of school children: wake up and speak up to protect your child’s information!

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Dissent

Several years ago, I wrote to the NYC Comptroller’s Office and asked them to re-audit the NYC Department of Education on information technology/data security. To my knowledge, they haven’t done so. If you are a parent of a student in the NYC schools, this should concern you because the previous audit and two re-audits showed…

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NY: East Quogue Union Free School District – audit

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Dissent

I’ve occasionally posted audits of school districts in New York State conducted by the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Yesterday, Comptroller DiNapoli released some new audits yesterday. One of them involved an audit of information technology at the East Quogue Union Free School District in Suffolk County. The audit covered the period July 1, 2012 — August 31,…

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