School districts need to increase their awareness and preparedness to combat cyberattacks. Governments and businesses need to join forces to support districts via training, testing and tools to ensure threat detection, appropriate response and minimal damage.
Georgetown University's Center on Privacy & Technology released a report detailing facial recognition technology use and driver's license searches conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
With an increase in healthcare-related data due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity professionals can employ encryption, data anonymization and other techniques to ensure healthcare data security.
Russian food delivery app Yandex Food has reported a data breach found to contain location and contact data for Russian military and security agencies.
Data privacy legislation has popped up across the United States, largely regulated by individual states. The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) has wide-reaching effects for U.S. enterprise organizations.
From the early stages of the internet, personal identifiable information (PII) has been stored, managed and used by companies. As data privacy has evolved, so has the security standpoint behind collecting user data.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced the implementation of mandatory facial recognition in order to access some government services. This may increase cybersecurity and data privacy risks.
The Albuquerque Public Schools student information system has been compromised in a cyberattack, prompting the closure of schools serving over 85,000 students in New Mexico.
Discrepancies in who and how many individuals were affected by a recent data breach of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority may be resolved by an ongoing cyber investigation.
