Brian New reports: A rising number of cyberattacks on Texas schools is exposing a troubling vulnerability. A CBS 11 I-Team investigation found in the past two years at least 67 school districts in Texas have suffered a cybersecurity breach. The incidents range from teachers accidentally emailing student personal information out to the whole class to…
Trial blocked by police data loss; murder suspect released
AP reports a follow-up to a data loss incident reported earlier this month: A murder suspect was released from jail Monday after his trial was postponed when Dallas police revealed they had lost a massive amount of criminal data. Read more on AP.
Florida Woman Convicted Of Damaging Her Former Employer’s Computers After She Was Fired
Here’s today’s reminder why you need to be sure to terminate access when you fire someone. How did she still have access two days later? It will be interesting to see what her sentence is and how much restitution she will have to pay. Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of…
Still Missing a New Leader, Former OCR Directors, Experts Offer Advice, Task List
Theresa Defino writes: Issue a final rule revising the privacy regulation and write guidance on the information blocking rule. Formalize the fledgling audit program required by Congress more than 10 years ago. Engage with providers and other HIPAA-regulated entities. And by all means, get cracking. In a series of interviews with RPP, two former Office for…
Lukashenko hid the real data of Covid-19 mortality. A cyber attack has revealed figures about 14 times higher
The following is a Google translation of a news report by Anastasia Harea: Belarusian authorities have lied about the number of deaths caused by the new coronavirus. Everything came to light after a group of anonymous hackers from Belarus broke into the national civil status system, and the data found showed that between March 2020…
Pearson to pay $1M fine for misleading investors about 2018 data breach
Carly Page reports: Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data breach resulting in the theft of millions of student records. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement on Monday after the…