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Marymount Manhattan College is investing $35M over 6 yrs to protect students' online data after an investigation by the NY Attorney General's office found that the college failed to properly secure personal info of prospective/current students/staff/alumni https://t.co/diqMYaSfY9

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The California state CIO and a T-Mobile executive both said it's essential for government to keep pace with technological advances. Here's why https://t.co/WDRb3lmdId

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19 tech policy and advocating groups penned a letter to White House officials recently, responding to recent researching findings that student privacy and equity are being eroded by schools' use of technology https://t.co/kyDPMe94Ot

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The United Kingdom and the US finalized an agreement allowing for the free flow of online data between the two nations starting October 12. https://t.co/QCV026JuYA

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A new cyber threat intelligence group will seek to bring greater attention &resources to bear on understanding complex cyber operations in Africa &Latin America, regions that organizers say have been historically neglected by cybersecurity researchers https://t.co/75dv9GOWNf

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The Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act of 2023 will continue through the House after receiving unanimous consent from its sponsoring committee during a recent mark up. Read more about it here https://t.co/eC7jifF2sF

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While DOD officials still believe cyber will have a role in conflict, it just might not be the function they previously expected after having observed the Russia-Ukraine war https://t.co/BgXmUZXiwc

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A trio of nominees to the FTC said that it is crucial that Congress pass a federal privacy bill, even as the agency they are nominated to lead is looking to take stronger action on privacy issues https://t.co/mTXaMhBQBQ

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In a new letter, members of Congress cite recent articles in the American press to warn of what they view as Beijing's recent, intensifying expansion of espionage efforts to access secretive US defense installations using human spies and tech https://t.co/xz0WitlWzW

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Earlier this month, the DHS delivered a 100-page report with recommendations on how to revamp the thicket of cyber incident reporting requirements faced by US critical infrastructure operators https://t.co/CWbGNnweWx

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A misconfiguration caused AI researchers at Microsoft to expose 37 terabytes of sensitive internal data, including signing keys, to GitHub users researchers reported earlier this month https://t.co/I7xb2u4Fao

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An Iranian cyber espionage group successfully compromised dozens of entities and exfiltrated data from a subset of them as part of a campaign targeting organizations in the satellite, Microsoft announced in a recent report https://t.co/rtoUk2ppQu

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The Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Threat Assessment is warning of bad actors potentially using artificial intelligence to disrupt critical infrastructure either through election influence campaigns or by targeting industrial systems https://t.co/ByOp3k3C6I

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CISA is offering free security scans for critical infrastructure facilities, such as water utilities, to help protect them from cyberattacks https://t.co/8IksAdk5F8

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California legislature passed the "Delete Act," a first of it's kind law that allows the state's consumers to universally remove their personal data from all data brokers based in the state with a single request https://t.co/0fYfkrgYo2

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A who's-who of tech industry reps and NSA's covened in Washington to explore ways to improve the security of open source software – a bedrock of the software ecosystem that gov't officials and researchers are grappling with how to better secure https://t.co/YI7wlguspS

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The FTC is investigating whether X Corp – formally Twitter – is violating a 2011 agreement Twitter entered into with the agency to settle complaint's about Twitter's privacy practices https://t.co/liJ3Jw5RfP

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An advisory committee to CISA delivered a long list of recommendations that encouraged the agency to take measure to increase the cybersecurity expertise on corporate board of directors https://t.co/aGMJ85GneU

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With two major cyber-attacks hitting K-12 school systems this year (LA Unified and Minneapolis School District), this one analyst is pushing for greater support from the federal government as the severity and frequency of attacks are on the rise https://t.co/pRSwKNmwmL

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Chinese influence operations appear to be improving as state operatives deploy artificially generated images that are getting more engagement https://t.co/GZ7Rfkz6GG