Education has surpassed healthcare as the sector most targeted by ransomware, a variety of malware that makes data inaccessible to users until a ransom is paid.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reached settlements with four major companies, blocking them from using tracking technology on their popular children’s websites.
Safe social media use is the No. 1 cybersecurity challenge for employees, according to the latest report from Wombat Security Technologies on security awareness issues in enterprise organizations.
The Consortium for School Networking issued a new seal to seven schools for their commitment to the privacy and security of student data.
As technology has changed K–12 education, so has it changed the role of the chief technology officer, a job title that just barely existed 15 years ago. Today's CTO is not your grandfather's infrastructure manager!
New York’s Education Department has appointed its first privacy officer, Temitope Akinyemi, whose responsibility will be to ensure that student data remains private and confidential.
Current or former friends or dates are seven times more likely to cyberbully each other than young people who don’t know each other, according to a recent study.
The WheresTheBus app lets parents know exactly where their children are when they ride the school bus home.
A Virginia school system has implemented a real-time threat alert system that immediately connects staff in the school building to each other and the nearest law enforcement personnel.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/17/16
An Indiana school system has replaced the door locks through all of its buildings with locks that can be managed through the district's wireless network.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/15/16