Teaching students about cybersecurity: 7 topics for teachers and parents

Spending a semester or a year abroad can be a life-changing experience for college students. But while living in a strange new place is undoubtedly exciting, it can mean new safety challenges as well—and this includes cybersecurity.

Checklist 153: Grades and Zeroes and Dumb Shoes

On this edition of The Checklist: Grading the Siri “grading” situation, Project Zero’s “iPhone Hack”, and Making the case for shoes that aren’t that smart

5 Ways to Improve Cybersecurity in Schools

As we talked about in part 1 of this piece, the issue of cybersecurity in schools is significant—and doesn’t seem to be getting better.

So what steps can individual parents and concerned adults take to address such a huge problem? 

Here are 5 things you can do to help make schools more secure:

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A teacher’s guide to cybersecurity in the classroom

It seems like cybersecurity issues are in the news all the time. From data breaches at major financial institutions to ransomware attacks on city governments, scarcely a week goes by without another disturbing story of digital disaster.

Checklist 152: Sharing is Scaring

On this edition of The Checklist: Convenience versus privacy on Yelp, Tips for staying digitally safe on campus, and Everybody needs to update their everything!

Do schools have a cybersecurity problem?

We often think of financial institutions, corporations, and governments as the primary targets of cyberattacks. But are schools at risk as well?

The answer, unfortunately, is yes—and the problem is growing.

In this two-part article, we’ll provide you with an overview of the problem, as well as some actionable ideas for dealing with it.

The changing face of education

With state and local education budgets stretched thin, and faced with the challenges of preparing students for an increasingly tech-centric job market, school districts across the country have embraced technological solutions that promise to do …

7 Cybersecurity Tips for College Freshmen

Each fall, millions of college freshmen hit the nation’s campuses to begin some of the most important years of their lives.

The Great iOS Jailbreak of 2019—and why you should update to 12.4.1 right now!

Apple has just released a patch to fix the issue discussed below. If you don’t have automatic updates enabled, take a second to update to iOS 12.4.1 now.

Apple AirDrop Vulnerability Broadcasts User Phone Numbers to Potential Attackers

iPhone users who frequently use the AirDrop feature to share images, videos, or other files may unwittingly be broadcasting their phone numbers to people nearby. According to a recent Ars Technica report, a hacker would need to have a laptop and a “wireless packet sniffer” dongle to exploit the vulnerability. Armed with those components, a security researcher testing the proof-of-concept software designed to exploit the vulnerability was able to see “details of more than a dozen iPhones and Apple Watches that were within radio range” and use this information to …

Checklist 151: Too Close for Security Comfort

This week on the Checklist podcast, we’ll talk about how to deal with security risks that come from those closest to you (literally). We’ll take you through some bad iOS news from the past week, and also discuss how it relates to a larger issue related to mobile security. And finally, we revisit a familiar topic—passwords—and tell you about some newly released Google research that probably means we’ll have to keep talking about passwords for the foreseeable future. Here’s our weekly Checklist:

Protecting your data from the people – literally – …

Careers In Cybersecurity

In the first part of this two-part series, we made the case for cybersecurity as a career path with excellent short and long-term growth prospects.

But what, exactly, do folks who work in cybersecurity do all day?

That’s what we’ll cover in this article. 

While the list of jobs won’t be exhaustive—cybersecurity, like any complex and growing field, has a wide array of opportunities—it will cover some of the most in-demand specializations and give a representative sampling of the kinds of jobs out there (along with a general idea of how much they …

Checklist 150: Trust Issues

On this edition of The Checklist: The Siri Sessions, O.MG: A Cable Hack, and 15 Apps to Watch for on Kids’ Phones.