The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is still taking steps to recover from a ransomware attack on its IT systems last week.
Amid the Bay Area’s recent record-breaking heat wave, the City of San Francisco took the opportunity to launch a heat mapping effort to collect data on the impacts of extreme heat.
The Billington CyberSecurity Summit closed out day two with a discussion with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Senior Election Security Advisor, Kim Wyman, on the necessity of voting infrastructure protection in the upcoming national elections.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it is committing over $81 million in a new funding round for the Emergency Connectivity Program (ECP) to provide digital services for students in communities across the country.
Alan Davidson, head of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), detailed challenges that some in rural Alaska still face with getting adequate internet and broadband support at a webinar hosted by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA).
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has announced $206 million dollars in grant funding that will help expand internet access to 69 different counties in North Carolina.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) called on all employees, students, and families to reset their passwords after a ransomware attack occurred on the school district’s information technology (IT) systems over Labor Day weekend, according to a September 6 news release.
The California State University (CSU) has tapped Ed Clark, Ed.D., to serve as the university’s chief information officer (CIO).
Qazi will take over for David Crotts, director of financial management and business operations in the Division of Finance, who has served as interim IT Transformation program director since March.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on August 31 that the agency is preparing to provide $791 million of new funding for state broadband buildouts through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.
