Security Spotlight
A persistent virus is what drove George Thornton to look for a different solution. No, not the type of virus that sends school administrators running to their emergency alert systems to warn parents about an H1N1 outbreak, but the other kind--the ones that show up on computers and drag down network operations. More
School Security News & Issues
The school district enmeshed in a lawsuit for using school laptops to capture images of students without their knowledge has just signed a $25,000 contract with SunGard Services to help with IT auditing and policy development. The school board for Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania approved the emergency expenditure in May 2010 after reviewing a report from a national legal firm that investigated the district's use of a "theft tracking" Webcam feature. MoreA high school in Wisconsin has issued panic button pendants to its teachers that enable them to summon emergency help with the push of a button. MoreA New York school district will be implementing a school transportation surveillance system for nearly 700 school buses. MoreMicrosoft this week released two new open source tools to help developers take advantage of the .PST file format that's used in the Outlook e-mail client app. MoreA company that sells enhanced 911 (E911) applications has developed a smartphone app for campuses that transmits location details from the mobile phone during the call. MoreMicrosoft confirmed last week that it has been working with a security firm investigating a fundamental flaw in antivirus (AV) software for Windows. More
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