School Actions for Emergencies


  • Student data exposed on test-prep site
    6 hours and 48 minutes ago   Primary Topic Channel: Computer security

    Test scores, birth dates, and other personal information for more than 100,000 students were published accidentally on The Princeton Review's web site this summer, according to the New York Times.

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  • Before the gunfire, cyberattacks
    Aug 13, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Security

    Weeks before bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace, reports The New York Times.

  • New York State Senate gets bill banning bullying acts in the schools
    Aug 12, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Safety & security

    Legislation aimed at banning bullying in public schools, including harassment based on sexual orientation, has been quietly introduced in the State Senate, reports The New York Times.

  • Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack
    Aug 11, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Safety & security

    A federal judge ordered three college students to cancel a Sunday presentation at a computer hackers' conference where they planned to show security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's subway. The temporary restraining order, issued by a U.S. district judge in Massachusetts, prevented the Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from demonstrating at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas how to use the vulnerabilities to get free rides.

  • Russian gang hijacking PCs in vast scheme
    Aug 06, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Computer security

    A criminal gang is using software tools normally reserved for computer network administrators to infect thousands of PCs in corporate and government networks with programs that steal passwords and other information, a security researcher has found, according to a New York Times report.

  • BLOXX WEB FILTERING OPENS NEW ENGLAND SALES AND SUPPORT OFFICE, FIRST IN NORTH AMERICA
    Aug 05, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Safety & security

    Bloxx True-View Technology is now available in the United States. This award winning technology is easy-to-use, affordable, and highly effective. It categorizing information in real-time to assure relevent results. From blocking anonymous proxies to reporting, our solution does it all!

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  • eSN TechWatch: High-tech security -- August 6, 2007
    Aug 06, 2007

    Virginia Tech turns to technology to help keep students safe in the wake of its terrible tragedy--plus, more ed-tech news from around the nation.

  • HELP Highlights
    Jul 05, 2006

  • New Orleans mayor: "How are the children?"
    Jul 05, 2006

    In an exclusive interview with eSchool News Editor Gregg W. Downey, New Orleans' newly reelected mayor, Ray Nagin, talked about the key role technology will play in restoring education in New Orleans.

  • Terry Smithson Interview part 1
    Jul 05, 2006

    In this three-part interview with eSN TV, HELP Team leader Terry Smithson speaks with Editor Gregg W. Downey about HELP's continuing work.

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