Education

Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was

Analysis Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts

CSO03 Mar 2025 | 17

Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

APRICOT With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?

Networks27 Feb 2025 | 76

PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen

Updated Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants

Cyber-crime22 Jan 2025 | 31

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Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

Updated Dam, the consequences

Software14 Nov 2024 | 80

Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets

Electromagnetic radiation contributed to that zincing feeling: analysts

Science06 Nov 2024 | 68

Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

Claims their child will 'suffer irreparable harm' if the record stays

AI + ML16 Oct 2024 | 178

Mind the talent gap: Infosec vacancies abound, but hiring is flat

ISC2 argues security training needs to steer toward what hiring managers want

Security11 Sep 2024 | 8

Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans

Updated Isn't the education system in enough trouble already?

AI + ML29 Aug 2024 | 34

This uni thought it would be a good idea to do a phishing test with a fake Ebola scare

Needless to say, it backfired in a big way

CSO22 Aug 2024 | 118

Attacker steals personal data of 200K+ people with links to Arizona tech school

Nearly 50 different data points were accessed by cybercrim

Cyber-crime12 Aug 2024 | 7

MDM vendor Mobile Guardian attacked, leading to remote wiping of 13,000 devices

Singapore Ministry of Education orders software removed after string of snafus

Security06 Aug 2024 | 9

An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen

Feature Follow us down this deep rabbit hole of privacy policy after privacy policy

Personal Tech18 May 2024 | 140

Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip

Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal

Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 18

Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams

Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing

Legal11 Apr 2024 | 19

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

Adding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy… with the lightweight edition to follow

OSes15 Mar 2024 | 109

VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May

Exclusive But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content

Channel11 Mar 2024 | 8

Researcher claims Harvard nixed social media research after getting Zuck bucks

University says ties to Meta execs and a $500 million donation played no role

Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 10

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views

SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system

After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue

Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 56

Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids

'Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children ... it is now there in black and white'

Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 15

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 62

Pope tempted by Python! Signs off on coding scheme for kids

In the name of the firewall, the server, and the home page default, amen

Bootnotes28 Oct 2023 | 41

Microsoft creates a new kind of credential: the 'Applied Skill'

Poll Shorter and more specific than certifications, but still tied to Microsoft products. Would you do one?

On-Prem26 Oct 2023 | 13

Big Tech offers free training courses on India's new digital skills platform

Mobile-first service aims to bring e-learning to the masses, covering tech and plenty more

Software15 Sep 2023 | 1

This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it

Interview Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, I'm beggin' of you please improve my code

Software30 Aug 2023 | 12

University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu

Updated Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines!

CSO29 Aug 2023 | 21

Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON

DEF CON Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun?

Black Hat and DEF CON14 Aug 2023 | 6

Cyber-extortionists pillage Colorado education dept

Hey, breacher, leave those kids alone

Cyber-crime08 Aug 2023 | 7

4 in 5 Chromebooks sold to US students in Q2 as demand rises

Education buyers ignore campaign group's intense criticism of device's lifespan, 'expect expiration dates for milk, not tech'

Personal Tech08 Aug 2023 | 41

IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years

Boffins given five months to migrate, with vanilla DaaS suggested as the alternative

PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2023 | 7

Professor freezes student grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers

Future robots don't need to be killers, they can just turn us against ourselves

AI + ML17 May 2023 | 107

Plagiarism-sniffing Turnitin tries to find AI writing by students – with mixed grades

Updated Claims 98% confidence, tests suggest a human touch will beat the teachers

AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 42

School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator

In Brief ALSO: DJI forgets the 'B' in 'BCC,' and this week's critical known exploits

Security03 Apr 2023 | 90

Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.'

Some training in refreshed certification platform to be free, including short how-to vids

Networks13 Mar 2023 | 7

Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak

Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking

Security30 Jan 2023 | 15

China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis

Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more

On-Prem30 Jan 2023 | 6

Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky

Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics

Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11

CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security

Oy, teacher, protect those kids online

Government Tech Week25 Jan 2023 | 1

ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams

This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display

AI + ML24 Jan 2023 | 40

University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok

Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work

Security19 Jan 2023 | 27

Lockheed Martin's Army cyber training platform goes civilian

Army civilian employees, that is, but aerospace biz says it could be used in the private sector, too

Security29 Nov 2022 | 1

Amazon quits India's frenzied edtech market

Plenty of top tech CEOs graduated from the country's unis, which are seen as a ticket to prosperity

Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 1

AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education

Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals

AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 27

Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school

Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments

Science17 Oct 2022 | 40

US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware

FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector

Cyber-crime07 Sep 2022 | 8

US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all

Remembering Aaron Swartz

Science25 Aug 2022 | 16

Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops

Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000

Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 61

Education officials urged to curb student snoopware

Or just see it as preparing them for the future

Applications04 Aug 2022 | 7

Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

Opinion Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies

Systems18 Jul 2022 | 260

Big Tech bosses call for computer science to be taught in all US schools

If we're gonna have robot overlords, might as well learn why they crash

Software13 Jul 2022 | 51

More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers

Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests

AI + ML07 Jul 2022 | 18

Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not

Comment Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling

AI + ML28 Jun 2022 | 100

Indian developer educator Scaler moves to America with $11k online courses

MOOC dropouts, boot camp avoiders, and college-averse students sought

Software09 Jun 2022 | 5

Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings

For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids

Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 192

Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns

Forget dark-web souks, thousands of these are already being traded on public bazaars

Cyber-crime27 May 2022 | 3

FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data

Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya

Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 9

UK competition watchdog probes school software contract revisions

Former Capita-owned ESS' minimum 3-year deals put under spotlight by CMA

Software27 Apr 2022 | 13

IT outage at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University enters second week

Multiple systems remain down as spokesperson confirms 'security incident' was cyber attack

Security24 Mar 2022 | 40

Intel details $100m plan to boost US chip-making skills

Bold moves to create a 'semi' literate pool of factory workers

On-Prem17 Mar 2022 |

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Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was

Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen

Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors

Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack

No, Broadcom did not just end VMware's flagship VCDX certification program

NARROWER TOPICS

NARROWER TOPICS

Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets

Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

Mind the talent gap: Infosec vacancies abound, but hiring is flat

Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans

This uni thought it would be a good idea to do a phishing test with a fake Ebola scare

Attacker steals personal data of 200K+ people with links to Arizona tech school

MDM vendor Mobile Guardian attacked, leading to remote wiping of 13,000 devices

An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen

Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip

Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May

Researcher claims Harvard nixed social media research after getting Zuck bucks

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system

Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

Pope tempted by Python! Signs off on coding scheme for kids

Microsoft creates a new kind of credential: the 'Applied Skill'

Big Tech offers free training courses on India's new digital skills platform

This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it

University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu

Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON

Cyber-extortionists pillage Colorado education dept

4 in 5 Chromebooks sold to US students in Q2 as demand rises

IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years

Professor freezes student grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers

Plagiarism-sniffing Turnitin tries to find AI writing by students – with mixed grades

School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator

Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.'

Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak

China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis

Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky

CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security

ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams

University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok

Lockheed Martin's Army cyber training platform goes civilian

Amazon quits India's frenzied edtech market

AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education

Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school

US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware

US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all

Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops

Education officials urged to curb student snoopware

Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

Big Tech bosses call for computer science to be taught in all US schools

More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers

Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not

Indian developer educator Scaler moves to America with $11k online courses

Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings

Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns

FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data

UK competition watchdog probes school software contract revisions

IT outage at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University enters second week

Intel details $100m plan to boost US chip-making skills

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