Marjorie Spivak, Taylor Ey, and Liz LeVan Riley of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP write: Consider these five steps during your summer break to address the protection of confidential information and combat cybersecurity risks before the start of fall semester. 1. Information Assessment: Identify what data your institution holds, how it is used, how is…
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Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online
Joseph Cox reports: Elsevier, the company behind scientific journals such as The Lancet, left a server open to the public internet, exposing user email addresses and passwords. The impacted users include people from universities and educational institutions from across the world. It’s not entirely clear how long the server was exposed or how many accounts…
Nearly $1 Million Stolen from Connecticut Higher Education Trust Accounts During Security Breach
NBC CT reports: Nearly $1 million was stolen from CHET — Connecticut Higher Education Trust — accounts during a security breach and 21 account holders were affected, according to the Office of the State Treasurer. Connecticut State Treasurer Denise Nappier said that TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing, Inc., the CHET Direct program manager, alerted the state Treasury…
Education Scotland order hard reset on school social networking app following major security breach
Derek Healey reports: Education Scotland is facing “very difficult questions” after being forced to order a hard reset of all passwords across its national digital learning platform following a major security breach. An email distributed to headteachers and seen by The Courier has revealed how management called for all log-ins to be scrapped after it…
Human error to blame in vast majority of education data breaches
Mark Satter reports: The nation relies on teachers to educate our children and help them when they make mistakes. But when it comes to protecting students’ data, it is often the teachers and school staff who mistakenly let bad actors in to school computer systems, officials say. In a hearing Thursday before the House Committee…
U.S. Education Department employee who infected his government computer with malware from searching for child porn was allowed to retire with no prosecution
Wills Robinson reports: A Department of Education employee left government computers vulnerable to hacking after downloading a virus while searching for ‘naked toddlers’, ‘little boys’, a and references to child rape, a report has revealed. Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by DailyMail.com show the staffer typed in at least 18 illicit…