{"id":191,"date":"2020-07-02T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=191"},"modified":"2020-07-02T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:29:38","slug":"schools-already-struggled-with-cybersecurity-then-came-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/schools-already-struggled-with-cybersecurity-then-came-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools Already Struggled With Cybersecurity. Then Came Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS TIME LAST year, Jaggar Henry was enjoying the summer like so many other teens. The 17-year-old had a job, was hanging out with friends on the weekends, and just generally spending a lot of time online. But then, at the end of July, Henry combed his hair, donned a slightly oversized Oxford shirt, and appeared before his school district&#8217;s board in Polk County, Florida\u2014one of the larger school districts in the US\u2014to outline a slew of security flaws he had found in its digital systems. His presentation was the culmination of months of work and focused on software used by more than 100,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Those vulnerabilities have been fixed, but Henry, who now works full time on education technology, says that his experience illustrates the challenges facing school districts across the United States\u2014and a problem that&#8217;s grown more acute in the wake of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic has had major cybersecurity implications around the world. Tailored phishing attacks and contact-tracing scams prey on fear and uncertainty. Fraudsters are targeting economic relief and unemployment payments. 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