Spain’s Ministry of Science (Ministerio de Ciencia) announced a partial shutdown of its IT systems, affecting several citizen- and company-facing services. […]
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Italian university La Sapienza goes offline after cyberattack
Rome’s “La Sapienza” university has been targeted by a cyberattack that impacted its IT systems and caused widespread operational disruptions at the educational institute. […]
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University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info
Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal information of staff and students. […]
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Princeton University discloses data breach affecting donors, alumni
A Princeton University database was compromised in a cyberattack on November 10, exposing the personal information of alumni, donors, faculty members, and students. […]
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University of Pennsylvania confirms data stolen in cyberattack
The University of Pennsylvania has confirmed that a hacker breached numerous internal systems related to the university’s development and alumni activities and stole data in a cyberattack. […]
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London police arrests suspects linked to nursery breach, child doxing
The UK Metropolitan Police has arrested two suspects following an investigation into the doxing of children online after a ransomware attack on a chain of London-based nurseries. […]
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Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against education software company PowerSchool, which suffered a massive data breach in December that exposed the personal information of 62 million students, including over 880,000 Texans. […]
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Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data
Education giant Pearson suffered a cyberattack, allowing threat actors to steal corporate data and customer information, BleepingComputer has learned. […]
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PowerSchool customers hit by downstream extortion threats
Five months after education software vendor PowerSchool paid an unnamed threat actor a ransom in exchange for the deletion of sensitive stolen data, some of the company’s customers are now receiving extortion demands. A threat actor, who may or not be the same criminal group behind the attack, has contacted four school district customers of…
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Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education
More than 250 CEOs signed an open letter published in The New York Times on Monday calling for AI and computer science to be “core components” of K-12 curricula. The signatories, which include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, argue that computer science and AI education are essential…
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It’s Time to Prioritize Cybersecurity Education
From ransomware attacks disrupting school systems to phishing scams targeting student credentials, educational institutions are prime targets for cybercriminals. Cybersecurity education is critical to protecting individual students and the vast, complex systems that support their learning. The post It’s Time to Prioritize Cybersecurity Education appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Google Classroom gives teachers an AI feature for quiz questions
Google Classroom introduced a new AI-powered feature designed to help teachers generate questions. Launched on Monday, this tool lets educators create a list of questions based on specific text input. Using this text-dependent question generation tool, which utilizes Gemini, teachers can either upload files from Google Drive or manually enter text for the AI to…
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Western Sydney University discloses security breaches, data leak
Western Sydney University (WSU) announced two security incidents that exposed personal information belonging to members of its community. […]
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PowerSchool previously hacked in August, months before data breach
PowerSchool has published a long-awaited CrowdStrike investigation into its massive December 2024 data breach, which determined that the company was previously hacked over 4 months earlier, in August, and then again in September. […]
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Lock Out Hackers: Why Every School Needs Strong Passwords
Lock Out Hackers: Why Every School Needs Strong Passwords We recently hosted a live webinar to help kick off 2025, encouraging you to strengthen your school district’s cybersecurity and online safety systems. This webinar featured two expert K-12 guest panelists: Skip Cooley, Director of Technology at Clinton School District, and Tyler Derickson, Cybersecurity & Systems…
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Product Update | Cloud Monitor + Content Filter
NEW! In Cloud Monitor: Policy Enhancements We’re thrilled to introduce our latest Cloud Monitor policy updates! We designed these enhancements to make it easier than ever for administrators to keep students safe and secure in the classroom. With smarter alerting and automation, identifying and addressing violations now takes less manual effort, allowing you to stay…
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Adam Khan on the Unique Security Challenges in Education IT
Adam Khan, vice president of global security operations for Barracuda Networks, explains what makes securing schools, such as universities, so much more difficult than the average enterprise IT environment. Unlike traditional enterprises, schools operate on limited budgets, often relying on outdated infrastructure while managing vast amounts of sensitive student, financial, and research data—making them prime..…
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PowerSchool starts notifying victims of massive data breach
Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack. […]
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A K-12 Guide to the Digital Classroom
Digital tools have transformed how teachers and students engage in classroom activities, creating opportunities to enhance learning, communication, and organization. In this guide, we’ll explore the types of educational technologies available, their benefits for K-12 education, and how school districts can manage their digital classroom environments. What is a digital classroom? A digital classroom is…
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Malware stole internal PowerSchool passwords from engineer’s hacked computer
The theft of a PowerSchool engineer’s passwords prior to the breach raises further doubts about the company’s security practices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults
Younger Gen Zers are embracing OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for schoolwork, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. But it’s not clear that they’re fully aware of the tech’s pitfalls. In a follow-up to its 2023 poll on ChatGPT usage among young people, Pew asked ~1,400 U.S.-based teens ages 13 to 17…
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Classroom Manager: Online Classroom Management, Instruction, and Learning Made Easy
Technology is transforming teaching and learning in today’s classrooms by providing teachers and students with an ever-increasing array of digital tools and resources. The possibilities for innovation are endless, from video conferencing to virtual reality and artificial intelligence (AI). While implementing these tools comes with a learning curve, teachers are embracing them due to their…
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Keeping Phishing Simulations on Track
The West Midlands Train service has come under fire after workers discovered that an email promising them a bonus payment after running trains during the pandemic was actually a phishing simulation test. Around 2,500 employees received a message which appeared to come from Julian Edwards, Managing Director of West Midlands Trains, thanking them for their…
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Keeping Phishing Simulations on Track
The West Midlands Train service has come under fire after workers discovered that an email promising them a bonus payment after running trains during the pandemic was actually a phishing simulation test. Around 2,500 employees received a message which appeared to come from Julian Edwards, Managing Director of West Midlands Trains, thanking them for their…
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Keeping Phishing Simulations on Track
The West Midlands Train service has come under fire after workers discovered that an email promising them a bonus payment after running trains during the pandemic was actually a phishing simulation test. Around 2,500 employees received a message which appeared to come from Julian Edwards, Managing Director of West Midlands Trains, thanking them for their…
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Keeping Phishing Simulations on Track
The West Midlands Train service has come under fire after workers discovered that an email promising them a bonus payment after running trains during the pandemic was actually a phishing simulation test. Around 2,500 employees received a message which appeared to come from Julian Edwards, Managing Director of West Midlands Trains, thanking them for their…
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Keeping Phishing Simulations on Track
The West Midlands Train service has come under fire after workers discovered that an email promising them a bonus payment after running trains during the pandemic was actually a phishing simulation test. Around 2,500 employees received a message which appeared to come from Julian Edwards, Managing Director of West Midlands Trains, thanking them for their…