Ex-NSA Hacker Says a Supply Chain Cyberattack Is One of the Things That Keeps Him Up at Night
Recent attacks also come as schools grapple with multiple other challenges related to the pandemic. Teachers get sick, and there aren't substitutes to cover them. Where there are strict virus testing protocols, there aren't always tests or people to give them. The cancellations — which Elder called “cyber snow days” — gave technicians a five-day window to reset the databases over a holiday weekend.
Many schools choose to keep attacks under wraps or release minimal information to prevent revealing additional weaknesses in their security systems. While attacks on larger districts garner more headlines, ransomware gangs tended to target smaller school districts in 2021 than in 2020, according to Brett Callow, a threat analyst at the firm Emsisoft. He said that could indicate bigger districts are increasing their spending on cybersecurity while smaller districts, which have less money, remain more vulnerable.
In October, President Joe Biden signed the K-12 Cybersecurity Act, which calls for the federal cyber security agency to make recommendations about how to help school systems better protect themselves.
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cyber attacks have been going on for decades.. time for the GOVT tech people to find ways to stop this. Russia and China do this all the time... Why is the USA always the victim here?