{"id":32711,"date":"2021-03-10T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32711"},"modified":"2021-03-10T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:35:31","slug":"the-kids-are-definitely-not-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32711","title":{"rendered":"THE KIDS ARE (DEFINITELY NOT) ALRIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report released Wednesday found that K-12 schools in the United States experienced a \u201crecord-breaking\u201d number of cyber incidents during 2020 as classes moved online and hackers moved in on vulnerable targets in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mbssmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvccqdwtc_ntfqddfyfnqpqdtqjjkj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mbssmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvccqdwtc_ntfqddfyfnqpqdtqjjkj.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615505724573000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE72hIxa5MGmS1wc0HiC0rM7UAqAQ\">report<\/a>, put together by the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, tracked 408 cybersecurity incidents that hit K-12 institutions over the past year, an 18 percent increase from 2019 and an average of two cyberattacks per school day aimed at the nation\u2019s education system.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks included ransomware attacks, in which a hacker holds a network for ransom, data breaches of student and teacher private data, and class intrusions such as \u201cZoombombing,\u201d which plagued online classes during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The report was rolled out as part of a virtual conference on Wednesday, at which Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) announced he would reintroduce legislation previously rolled out last year with Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) that would provide resources to help protect K-12 institutions from cyberattacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report released Wednesday found&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32712,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711\/revisions\/32712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}