The CST January-June 2019 Antisemitic Incidents Report shows a record high total of 892 antisemitic incidents in the UK in the first six months of 2019.
The Washoe County School District (WCSD) in Nevada announces a data breach, involving 114,000 students enrolled at WCSD between 2001 and 2016, and "a much smaller number of staff members employed during the same period", says a WCSD press release.
NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation prohibiting state teachers from carrying guns in schools, and a second that streamlines the state’s gun buyback program.
California has the lowest rate of preventable death – 35.0 per 100,000 residents – while West Virginia has the highest, at 104.2 deaths per every 100,000 residents, according to an annual list of states with the lowest and highest rates of unintentional, preventable deaths, which include poisonings – largely from drug overdoses – car crashes and falls.
A new guide to disaster recovery in the face of climate change has been released by the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program together with the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural 12 Resources, Office of Planning, and Tetra Tech, Inc.
Los Alamos Public Schools, N.M. has been awarded a state match of $305,974 for school safety and security upgrades from the Public School Capital Outlay Council (PSCOC). LAPS will pay $478,572 for these improvements at all school sites.
ASIS International announced the recipients of its 2019 Innovative Product Awards (IPA) for Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2019, to be held September 8-12 in Chicago.
Seven in 10 senior financial executives at the world’s largest companies believe their insurer would cover most or all of the losses their company would incur in a cyber attack. Many of the losses they foresee, however, are rarely covered by insurance.
Paper and film records mark the most common location of data breaches in hospitals, according to a study published in The American Journal of Managed Care.
Capital One Financial Corporation announced a data breach that affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada.