It started with a yellow sticky note stuck to a student computer. It ended with a hacked IT system and the expulsion of two students.
Lurking on School Sites
The price of getting information about your child’s school should not be losing your privacy to online ad brokers.
Student Hackings Highlight Weak K-12 Cybersecurity
Protecting Student and Employee Data
Like other organizations, school districts are increasingly finding themselves and the personal information they hold about students, faculty, and staff targets of costly cyberincidents.
Cyberattack map shows impacted U.S. school districts
The K-12 Cyber Incident Map is part of a larger attempt to categorize, defend and combat school cyberattacks.
Schools Will Continue ‘Flubbing’ Cybersecurity
On lessons learned (and what’s to come) from launching the K-12 Cyber Incident Map. One thing we know for sure: school cybersecurity incidents will remain big news in 2018.
Educational Android Apps Improperly Track Children
Often with their parents’ encouragement and supervision, young children are increasingly relying on mobile apps—even services that may not have expressly been designed for them—for learning. While parents have an expectation of privacy for their children when they use these apps, a new study suggests that parents’ trust may be misplaced.
Of note, some of the brands engaged in tracking may be quite familiar to readers…
Schools Prove Soft Targets for Hackers
Like big businesses, schools gather a lot of data. Unlike big businesses, they don’t have many IT and security resources to protect that information. Schools collect names and birth dates, social security numbers, discipline records and health records. With this data, thieves can create fake online identities, or sell the students’ information and identities.
Schools Should Delete Facebook
According to recent research by EdTech Strategies, more than 25 percent of school district websites embed user tracking tools that report sensitive user data back to Facebook. In the wake of a high-profile data-privacy scandal involving the social media company, schools and education organizations are taking a closer look at how and why they engage with Facebook.
K-12 Fallout From Facebook’s Crisis of Trust
Student data privacy advocates say the storm clouds around Facebook from the evolving Cambridge Analytica scandal are a reminder that schools, educators, and students should be asking tough questions about the third-party services on which they rely.