1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (510+ words) Schools are now among the top targets for cyberattacks in the United States. Last year, attacks against K-12 schools made up 74% of all cyberattacks against educational institutions, according to a report by Comparitech, a UK-based technology research firm. Schools are rich…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (554+ words) School district tech leader William Brackett uses a compelling example to illustrate how quickly artificial intelligence is changing the cat-and-mouse game in cybersecurity. But, the problem is, a student with bad intentions, or almost anyone, can now also deploy multiple…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1619+ words) The email that hit the inboxes of 164 employees in the Eminence Independent School district recently was carefully crafted to appear both time-sensitive and official. It was the kind of missive educators get all the time. It seemed to come from…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (73+ words) Schools are working to protect themselves against increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven cyberattacks. AI Is Supercharging Cyberattacks. What Schools Need to Know and Do This report has been made possible by grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Wallace Foundation. The…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1408+ words) Many school districts are ill-prepared to defend themselves against the growing threat of AI-powered cyberattacks, a problem that has been exacerbated by federal government cuts to programs that support school cybersecurity, experts say. Here is the heart of the problem:…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1127+ words) The use of artificial intelligence to bolster cybersecurity defenses is not new. For at least a decade, much of the must-have cybersecurity tools available have been powered by machine learning, predictive analytics, and pattern recognition'subsets of the broader bucket of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (648+ words) What's especially worrisome about AI-driven cyberattacks for school district technology director Gary Lackey is that the better hackers get at using the technology to mimic real people, the more likely they are to succeed. And hackers are getting better, experts…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1066+ words) Schools" heavy reliance on the services of major technology companies comes with significant risks. Those risks became a reality this week when an outage at Amazon Web Services led to widespread internet disruptions. Many educators across the country had to…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (674+ words) State policymakers across the political spectrum are grappling with how to help K-12 schools respond to mounting cybersecurity threats, even as the Trump administration rolls back federal resources meant to help districts counter such threats, according to a new report. The…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago  (157+ words) That's why experts say it's important for districts to establish an incident response plan in the event of a hack. This plan should include the steps the district will take to respond to the attack ... The ever-present threat of cyberattacks…...