Increasingly, schools across North America are being judged based on how their students perform on standardized tests. Whether at the district, state/provincial or national levels, administrators and politicians - through laws such as the U.S. No Child Left Behind Act
Facebook helps FBI cripple botnet
Anytime Facebook finds itself in the same sentence as a government agency these days, there's a good chance it means the site's privacy policies are being placed under further examination. But last week, the social media giant joined federal officials to announce an undeniably posit...
Hackers hold hospital records hostage
Administrators from Australia's Miami Family Medical Center recently received an unwelcome introduction to one of the world's fastest spreading cybercriminal scare tactics: ransomware. After infiltrating one of the clinic's computer servers and encrypting thousands of medical records, hackers are now demanding a $4,000 ransom in exchange for the ke...


