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Los Angeles School District Warns of Disruption As It Battles Ongoing Ransomware Attack (techcrunch.com) 25

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack that is causing ongoing technical disruptions. From a report: LAUSD is the second largest school district in the U.S. after the New York City Department of Education. The LAUSD serves over 600,000 students spanning from kindergarten through 12th grade at over 1,000 schools, and employs more than 26,000 teachers. The district said on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend, which it later confirmed was ransomware.

Although the attack caused "significant disruption" to LAUSD's infrastructure, the district said it will resume classes on Tuesday -- after observing Labor Day on Monday -- while it works to restore impacted services. LAUSD said that it does not expect technical issues to impact transportation, food or after-school programs, but noted that "business operations may be delayed or modified." It warned that ongoing disruptions include "access to email, computer systems, and applications," while a post from Northridge Academy High, a school in the district, confirmed that teachers and students might be unable to access Google Drive and Schoology, a K-12 learning management system, until further notice.

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Los Angeles School District Warns of Disruption As It Battles Ongoing Ransomware Attack

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  • Is this not an attack on a school by a foreign actor?
  • Totally useless article !
  • I see the usual comments piling in. Don't use Microsoft. Know what you're doing and take all necessary security precautions. The fact is is very hard to stay secure. You can do everything right and still get hit. You can patch a thousand vulnerabilities yet it still takes just one to knock you over. There's this thing called 'zero-day' vulnerabilities, for example. There was one today in Google Chrome, which is used all over the place! Security is a far bigger challenge than Microsoft products or sloppy adm

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