Cybersecurity

A Commonwealth Health cardiology group compounded the potential injury its patients suffered after a data breach by waiting almost two months to notify affected individuals, a proposed class-action lawsuit alleges.

The money will go toward training students interested in cybersecurity careers and the operation of associated clinics at colleges. Google says the funding could help agencies better defend themselves.

Kevin Gunn, the city’s chief technology officer, said hackers gained access to a municipal website that facilitates maintenance orders for the transportation, public works, parks and property management departments.

A federal lawsuit against Whitworth University in Washington alleges negligence for allowing a still-unidentified attacker to access health, financial and personal data of past and present students, staff and faculty.

The New York City Department of Education is among the latest organizations to confirm that sensitive data on its network was compromised in a massive global ransomware attack through the file-transfer software MOVEit.

Now in its second year, the program gives vision-impaired students Windows-based laptops with assistive technology to learn text-based coding and run through password-attack and credential-harvesting simulations.

The CEO of artificial intelligence startup OpenAI Inc. said there are many ways that rapidly progressing AI technology “could go wrong,” but he argues that the benefits outweigh the costs.

Des Moines Public Schools said it took immediate action to improve security. The breach was the third to occur in an Iowa school district in the last year, and 37 K-12 school districts in the United States have been hit this year.

Southern Illinois University joins the growing list of entities around the world that were likely affected by a Russian hack of the digital file transfer system MOVEit, although the university is still investigating.

The cybersecurity upskilling program is educating its second cohort, tweaking the material with lessons learned from the first go-round. Graduates spoke highly of the trainings — and the offers of more.

The names, social security numbers, birth dates and other confidential information of around 769,000 retirees and beneficiaries was stolen when hackers exploited a vulnerability in a CalPERS vendor’s system.

The San Luis Obispo County Office of Education took all services offline after learning of a cyber attack on June 12 that may have exposed employee financial information, although specifics are still under investigation.

School officials took the college's network offline after being notified of a cybersecurity incident on June 13. A ransomware group claimed responsibility, but officials have yet to say if private data was compromised.

The list of agencies effected now includes Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Maryland Department of Human Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Louisiana State University will use a $1.5 million NSA grant to support the new Louisiana Cybersecurity Clinic, which will offer free services through three sub-clinics to help small businesses with technical issues.

Will all the buzz surrounding new artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT soon be spreading to other tech areas like quantum computing?

Federal and state agencies and universities announce data breaches after hackers began exploiting a zero-day in late May. Now the company behind MOVEit has announced another critical vulnerability as more breaches come to light.

Louisiana State University's online and continuing education program is working with a Florida company to upskill current IT professionals and offer tools for people interested in IT careers.