Cybersecurity

As Los Angeles Unified School District recovers from a cyber attack, other school officials and cybersecurity experts discuss precautions they take against such threats and the costs associated with them.

The San Francisco 49ers have recently acknowledged that a ransomware attack during Super Bowl week that compromised its systems affected 20,930 individuals who may be victims of identity theft.

Half of all auto cyber attacks in history occurred in 2021 alone — up nearly 140% from 2020 — while automakers plan to add millions of additional connected vehicles to the roads in the coming years.

The private university will host the annual Kentucky Cybersecurity and Forensics Conference this November, at which attendees will be able to network and hear strategies to protect their Internet and communications.

A cyber attack over Labor Day weekend took down website function, email and other systems used by teachers at the nation's second-largest school system. Now federal officials from the FBI and CISA are involved.

Montenegro, Estonia and new NATO applicant Finland are just three of the countries being hit hard by sophisticated cyber attacks. What’s happening and who’s next?

School cybersecurity governance requires being proactive: develop a response plan, designate a security coordinator, audit and update systems, train staff on best practices, stay apprised of the latest resources, and advocate for legislative support.

Part of a $9.6 million federal grant will go to the private Catholic university in North Dakota to benefit online cybersecurity training, as well as employer-readiness training through the Workforce Development office.

An initiative in Connecticut aims to expand programs at colleges across the state in emerging and in-demand fields such as cybersecurity, virtual modeling, software development and digital analytics.

A cyber attack took out a server at Baker & Taylor, a major library books, software and service provider working with the likes of the New York Public Library. The company is still working to restore its systems.

As part of a certificate program by the nonprofit Public Infrastructure Security Cyber Education System (PISCES), university students have been monitoring Liberty Lake's networks for suspicious activity.

The East Bay city has hired its inaugural chief information security officer in Miriam Mehari. Mehari joined the city in 2005 and most recently served as an information systems administrator.

2021 was a record year for data breaches, with more than 80 percent of those coming in the form of cyber attacks. But a new report shows a decrease in these attacks, with the number of victims declining by 45 percent.

The leaders of various education-focused nonprofits single out cybersecurity, digital learning tools, sustainability, professional development and student responsibility with technology as key problems facing schools.

Faculty at Decatur City Schools in Alabama say the proliferation of social media platforms and digital devices in recent years has exacerbated cyber bullying, especially for seventh and eight grades.

A technical glitch has left upward of 1.8 million Pennsylvanians locked out of nutrition benefit programs — and officials are still at a loss to explain why, as similar outages grip other states.

Officials with the Department of Labor are defending the state’s newly launched $60 million benefits system saying that fraudulent unemployment insurance claims are the result of “100% identity theft.”

The majority of states are abandoning third-party cyber insurance for self-insurance, says Colorado CISO Ray Yepes. Plus, Virginia and Alaska cyber leads talk federal cyber grants and the importance of understanding local needs.