Education leaders in Connecticut are likely giving themselves a pat on the shoulder based on new data released by the nonprofit Connected Nation that shows Connecticut school districts are achieving higher levels of school internet connectivity than the rest of the country.
The University of Miami confirmed on March 23 that it has experienced a ransomware attack involving Accellion, a third-party provider of hosted file transfer services.
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Reps. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., and Roger Williams, R-Texas, have reintroduced the Eliminate the Digital Divide Act, which is intended to expand rural broadband access in rural America.
In a move to help support student success, Valdosta State University is partnering with Civitas Learning to more effectively use student data. Valdosta State said the partnership will allow the school to focus “even more on solving challenges and providing resources to students from enrollment to graduation.”
The McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research team announced March 21 that it has discovered “critical issues” on Netop Vision Pro, a popular classroom management software solution.
Moving beyond basic online learning, Morehouse College is now offering two classes held in virtual reality (VR) for the spring semester.
The state of Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is modernizing the IT infrastructure of its unemployment insurance (UI) system in concert with the U.S. Digital Response (USDR) and the General Service Administration’s (GSA) 18F.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously adopted a framework for sharing communications outage information with Federal, state, and Tribal nation agencies.
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) seeks comment on the Emergency Connectivity Fund for education connections and devices to address the homework gap during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Energy (DoE) needs to address potential cyber vulnerabilities to the United States electrical grid system in its national cybersecurity strategy, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report recommends.
