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The personal information of more than half a million Chicago Public Schools students and staff was leaked in a ransomware attack last December, although the breach wasn’t reported until April, officials said. The district said on Friday that technology vendor Battelle for Kids notified CPS of the breach on April 25. A server used to store student and staff information was breached, and four years’ worth of records were accessed, CPS said in a statement….

When a giant contractor of offshore oil rigs invests heavily in building sustainable, low carbon-footprint structures and products, it’s a sea change. For oil rig constructor McDermott International, that transformation has in no small part been fueled by IT.  Global Vice President and CIO Vagesh Dave says IT advancements in the cloud, analytics, and data management have transformed McDermott – and its industry – into an innovation engine. The Houston-based oil and gas engineering company…

As an organization committed to addressing the opportunity divide and closing the talent gap, Year Up is all about building pathways and making connections. When the pandemic hit and candidates and potential employers were unable to meet in person, Year Up’s IT organization scrambled to replicate training, enrollment, and matching processes in a virtual world to keep its talent match-making business going. The effort was successful in spite of technical debt, which piled up over…

Hacktivist group Anonymous has announced on social media that it’s launching a cyber-war against the pro-Russian group Killnet, which recently attacked European institutions. The news comes after anonymous hackers recently declared “cyber war” against Vladimir Putin’s government following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including leaking over 360,000 Russian federal agency files in the process. On Twitter, the @YourAnonOne account announced that: “The #Anonymous collective is officially in cyber war against the pro-Russian hacker group #Killnet.” …

Anyone reading this post will have at least dipped their toes into the world of cloud services. As a result of this massive growth, the world of compliance has spent much of the last decade catching up with the implications of cloud services.   For hosted infrastructure, “catching up” presents an interesting set of challenges since cloud managed environments are often more rapidly updated and might only offer limited options for managing their security surface area….