Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Cyber Criminals Are Turning to a New Source of Valuable, Loosely Protected Data, and You Won’t Believe What Industry It’s In

It's time for today's cybersecurity awareness test: What industry has accounted for 2 percent of all data breaches during 2017, more than healthcare, social media or retail? Finance would be a good guess, but it would be skewed by the scale of the Equifax breach. Government would make sense, too, given that the IRS was breached earlier this year and the SEC in September revealed a substantial breach that occurred last year. But as surprising as it is, the answer is education. Ryan Cloutier, an edtech security specialist, offered this surprising reality check about education breaches during an…

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