Scott Koller explains: The state of New Hampshire recently enacted House Bill 322 (“HB 322”), which requires the Department of Education (“DOE”) to implement additional procedures to protect student and teacher data from security breaches. Those procedures now include a breach notification requirement. Effective August 11, 2015, the DOE must develop a detailed security plan…
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FTC Kicks Off “Start With Security” Business Education Initiative
The Federal Trade Commission is expanding its efforts to help businesses protect consumers’ information through a new initiative that will provide them with more information on data security. Called “Start With Security,” the initiative includes new guidance for businesses that draws on the lessons learned in the more than 50 data security cases brought by the FTC…
Education Sector Struggles With Botnets: BitSight
As this blog makes painfully clear, the education sector struggles with data security and lags way behind other sectors, in my opinion. Now a new report indicates another area of security where they’re lagging. Brian Prince reports: The education industry – which includes education companies, schools and colleges – brought up the rear in a new…
Ca: Education ministry notifies police after website security breached and private email addresses obtained
Last week, Ontario’s Ministry of Education reported that 5,000 Ontarians’ e-mail addresses had been acquired and leaked from its web site. The data were dumped on Pastebin, in a post that is no longer available. Today, the Brampton Guardian reports: The government said it has notified the Ontario Provincial Police and the Office of the…
The Daily Mail did what U.S. media didn’t do: FOI the U.S. Education Department for Insider Breaches
From the good-for-them dept.: The Daily Mail in the U.K. filed a Freedom of Information request with the U.S. Education Department and obtained over 100 pages of responsive documents to their request for records relating to employee misuse of department computers. They have made the entire file available on their site. Note that this is…
Is It Time for a Wall of Shame for the Education Sector?
Over the past few months, SLC Security has been noting a lot of malware and botnet activity in the education sector – problems, they say, that the entities often don’t acknowledge when SLC Security attempts to alert them to problems. Yesterday, SLC Security wrote that they were seeing traffic from: New York University -Malicious Activity Princeton University – Malicious…