Tag: educational

  • Slashdot: PowerSchool Data Breach Victims Say Hackers Stole ‘All’ Historical Student and Teacher Data

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/15/1456240/powerschool-data-breach-victims-say-hackers-stole-all-historical-student-and-teacher-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: PowerSchool Data Breach Victims Say Hackers Stole ‘All’ Historical Student and Teacher Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The recent cyberattack on PowerSchool, an edtech provider used by U.S. school districts, has compromised a significant amount of personal data for students and teachers. This incident highlights…

  • AWS News Blog: Now open — AWS Mexico (Central) Region

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-mexico-central-region/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Now open — AWS Mexico (Central) Region Feedly Summary: AWS launches its first cloud Region in Mexico, enabling digital transformation with local infrastructure, delivering low latency, and helping customers meet data residency requirements, backed by a planned $5 billion investment over 15 years. AI Summary and Description:…

  • Hacker News: AI Tools: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking

    Source URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6 Source: Hacker News Title: AI Tools: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: This extensive study explores the impact of AI tool usage on critical thinking skills, highlighting the mediating role of cognitive offloading. The findings indicate a significant negative…

  • Hacker News: Backdooring Your Backdoors – Another $20 Domain, More Governments

    Source URL: https://labs.watchtowr.com/more-governments-backdoors-in-your-backdoors/ Source: Hacker News Title: Backdooring Your Backdoors – Another $20 Domain, More Governments Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a research project that focuses on exploiting vulnerabilities in expired and abandoned digital infrastructure, especially backdoors left by compromised systems. It highlights the use of mass-hacking techniques…

  • Slashdot: Database Tables of Student, Teacher Info Stolen From PowerSchool In Cyberattack

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/10/2059204/database-tables-of-student-teacher-info-stolen-from-powerschool-in-cyberattack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Database Tables of Student, Teacher Info Stolen From PowerSchool In Cyberattack Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a significant cybersecurity breach involving PowerSchool, a leading education software provider, where personal data of millions of students and educators was compromised. This incident highlights vulnerabilities associated…

  • Cloud Blog: Get ready for a unique, immersive security experience at Next ‘25

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/unique-immersive-security-experience-coming-to-next-25/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Get ready for a unique, immersive security experience at Next ‘25 Feedly Summary: Few things are more critical to IT operations than security. Security incidents, coordinated threat actors, and regulatory mandates are coupled with the imperative to effectively manage risk and the vital business task of rolling out…

  • The Register: Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/09/powerschool_school_data/ Source: The Register Title: Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack Feedly Summary: Class act: Biz only serves 60M people across America, no biggie A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers’ personal data – including some…

  • The Register: Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/backdoored_backdoors/ Source: The Register Title: Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed Feedly Summary: Here’s what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts…

  • AWS News Blog: Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-the-new-aws-asia-pacific-thailand-region/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region Feedly Summary: AWS launches Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region with 3 Availability Zones, accelerating cloud adoption. Strategically located to meet data residency needs, it drives innovation across industries. Early AWS adopters in Thailand share transformative success stories. Get started now!…

  • The Register: Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/02/schneider_datacenter_consumption/ Source: The Register Title: Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid Feedly Summary: Report charts four scenarios from ‘Sustainable AI’ to ‘Who Turned Out The Lights?’ Policymakers need to carefully guide the future consumption of electricity by AI datacenters, according to a report that considers four potential scenarios and…