Cybersecurity

Higher education institutions are more prepared for cyber attacks if they prioritize data security, categorize their data, maintain robust backups, and implement access controls and life cycle management processes.

Many Oregon school districts have been notified that a data breach of Carruth Compliance Consulting, which manages retirement plans, may have compromised names, Social Security numbers and financial account information.

Seven years after a cyber attack cost her North Carolina school district $1.3 million, a retired CTO shared stories and tips from the 42-day recovery process at the Future of Education Technology Conference.

Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Pielli, along with the Housing Authority of Chester County, recently held a free program educating people on how to spot and avoid frauds and scams that use technology.

The personal identifying information of more than 61,000 Texans may have been compromised in a data breach, and some of the state's most vulnerable residents are at highest risk.

From a new White House executive order on cyber to a blog from the outgoing CISA director to more scary details on the Treasury hack, the outgoing administration has strong words on cyber threats.

The Baker School District is one of hundreds nationwide and in other countries affected by a computer breach that accessed students’ names, birthdates and some other information.

Schools and districts comprise 645 of the 707 participants selected to receive funding through the Federal Communications Commission’s three-year, $200 million Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program.

The order is designed to make it more difficult and expensive for bad actors to target American institutions and organizations online. It is intended to make sanctions against them more effective.

By creating “fake” versions of their data to interface with ed-tech vendors, school districts can limit what kinds of personally identifiable information those companies have in the event they experience a data breach.

CIO Stephanie Dedmon discussed the state’s technology work, including new AI policies and use cases, cloud migration and cybersecurity projects, and what’s on the horizon. She is set to retire in July.

Although Ridgefield school officials initially thought the district wasn't affected by the PowerSchool data breach impacting educational institutions nationwide, they're now saying that's not the case.

Public- and private-sector leaders are guarding against artificially generated impersonations, AI-generated disinformation and scams. But, officials say, their task is becoming increasingly difficult and complex.

The schools there utilize PowerSchool as its student information system which was subject to a data breach on or around Dec. 22, according to emails sent out to district families and staff.

The elected representative’s official email account was breached by a bad actor and used to reach other email addresses, in an attempt to steal their personal information. The issue was resolved fairly swiftly.

As users of PowerSchool, a software company hit by a cyber attack last month, some Pennsylvania school districts are notifying families that student and parent names and addresses might be among the impacted data.

What were the top government technology and cybersecurity blog posts in 2024? The metrics tell us what cybersecurity and technology infrastructure topics were most popular.

School districts across the nation are reacting to word from K-12 software giant PowerSchool that its student information system has been compromised, exposing data from teachers and students.