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Every time a professional opens LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser today, hidden JavaScript silently probes their device for up to 6,278 installed browser extensions, encrypts the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn's servers — where they are attached to that user's verified name, employer, and c

The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering parking lots. Law enforcement is tapping the data as a source for their growing surveillance systems. Jason Koebler for…

UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time

Last Thursday, the inevitable happened. In the middle of finals at many colleges, a hacking group called ShinyHunters breached the security of Canvas, a widely used learning-management system (LMS), …

Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed "security patches" instead, the hackers were less than impresse

Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise.For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars. The battle has reached into homes via commercials for

Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. [...]

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ShinyHunters has struck yet again.

Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS firewall zero-day vulnerability for nearly a month.

Back in December 2017, I wrote about a tabletop exercise game built after hearing Round Rock ISD's CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Mark Gabehart (now

With data potentially stolen from 200 million users at 9,000 institutions worldwide, staff and students told to be alert for more sophisticated attempts to steal data

The study compiled data from Yondr, a California startup that makes lockable pouches for schools, businesses and entertainment venues.

The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]

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Rising digital threats are exposing stark disparities among school systems, where limited resources hinder recovery efforts and leave the most vulnerable learners facing the greatest consequences. GUEST COLUMN | by Björn Hall When Baltimore County Public Schools got breached in November 2020, the district stayed offline for three days. And while it might not seem […]

With school phone bans of various sorts now underway in 41 states and counting, debates on classroom screen time have shifted focus to the devices ostensibly being used for educational purposes: Chromebooks, iPads, and the like. In response to all the tech backlash, state policymakers are taking swift action, some of which is warranted, but much of which bears signs of legislative haste.

Teachers and administrators express strong opinions about the downsides of tech use in school.

Three Chrome tools, Stickity, Beep, and ScreenPal, turn one-way feedback into real conversations between teachers and students.

The Hechinger Report’s recent webinar on tech uses shows many are looking for curbs on devices.