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.
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Category: Security
Education Websites Face Pending ‘Mark of Shame’
HTTPS is important. Implementing HTTPS – in many cases – is easy. Not implementing it by a deadline that has been years in coming is a mark of shame and deserves to be called out as such.
Scholastic Makes Misleading Privacy, Security Claims in Services Directed to Children
Scholastic, one of the most beloved of all education brands, fails to provide even rudimentary security protections for some of its publicly available digital products directed to children under 13.
Heading to #ISTE18? Here’s What to Pack
If you care about your digital privacy and security, here is the tech gear to bring with you to ISTE 2018.
In the News: Student Hackings Highlight Weak K-12 Cybersecurity
Read MoreIn the News: Protecting Student And Employee Data In The Cyber Age
Like financial institutions, retailers, and Fortune 500 companies around the world, school districts are increasingly finding themselves and the personal information they hold about students, faculty, and staff targets of costly cyberincidents, including phishing schemes, malware intrusions, and denial of service (DoS) and ransomware attacks.
In the News: On School Website Security, Privacy Practices
In the three weeks since “Tracking: EDU” officially launched, a growing number of news outlets, associations, and organizations have highlighted the findings and significance of the work. Yet, what matters most is that SEAs, LEAs, and schools take what steps they may need in order to improve their website security and privacy practices.
And, no matter your role or interest in school technology issues, we all have a stake in that outcome.
School Websites are Bad, Just Not How You Think
According to a new study released today by EdTech Strategies, “Tracking: EDU,” state and local education agency websites were found to lack important security and privacy protections for students, families, and educators.