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A school district in East Texas will start scanning digital devices used by its students to find out what they have been saying to and about one another.  Longview Independent School District (Longview ISD) has partnered with technology and web-hosting company Gaggle to scour district-issued devices and student emails for a particular set of keywords. With Gaggle’s software, the keywords can be detected and reported to school administrators.  The district says that the purpose of the virtual…

A school district in East Texas is going to start scanning the digital devices used by its students to find out what they have been saying to and about one another.  Longview Independent School District (Longview ISD) has partnered with technology and web-hosting company Gaggle to scour district-issued devices and student emails for a particular set of keywords. With Gaggle’s software, the keywords can be detected and reported to school administrators.  The district says that the purpose…

The new quantum company plans a hardware agnostic approach combined with Honeywell’s H1 and Cambridge Quantum’s tket. Quantinuum is the new company that combines trapped ion hardware from Honeywell Quantum Solutions and open-source software from Cambridge Quantum to create a full-stack quantum computing company. Image: Quantinuum Quantinuum is not counting qubits in the race to error-corrected quantum computing. The new company is asking a new question: “What can we do right now with what we’ve…

American facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a fine of just over £17m ($22.6m) for alleged “serious breaches” of the UK’s data protection laws.  The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced the planned penalty yesterday and issued a provisional notice to Clearview to stop processing personal data taken from UK residents and to delete any such data in its possession. The announcement follows a joint investigation by the ICO and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which found…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Data breach, Stealthy malware, Vulnerabilities and Web skimmers. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News…

In this edition of our podcast, the PCI Security Standards Council is pleased to host a panel discussion featuring four women from Coalfire, a leading provider of IT advisory services for security in a variety of industries, including payments.

Thinking strategically is key for success in IT. In 2021, IDG saw a significant jump in the number of CIOs calling themselves “strategic.” These are the CIOs who spend the majority of their time driving business innovation and identifying opportunities for competitive differentiation.[1] And this trajectory is expected to continue throughout the next three years as almost 6 in 10 say they want their focus to be even more strategic.  It’s not just IT: 91%…