Newhall School District today announced it is among six United States K-12 public school districts awarded the IBM Education Security Preparedness Grant.
/PRNewswire/ IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has selected six school districts to receive its IBM Education Security Preparedness Grant, which totals $3.
Can social media and crowdsourcing create more disaster resilient societies? The LINKS H2020 project has the answers
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May 31, 2020
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June 2021 will mark the first year of work under LINKS, a project financed under the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.
Social media platforms and crowdsourcing (SMCS) strategies are increasingly being integrate into crisis management for cooperation and collaboration across European communities in all phases of crises. The European funded LINKS project wants to know more about how these processes impact societal resilience. As the project coordinator, Nathan Clark from Vrije University in Amsterdam puts it - Social media and crowdsourcing offer many opportunities for engaging with, and giving voices to, different stakeholders within a community which can support disaster risk management efforts and ultimately create more resilient societies. But at the same time there are still ris
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In 2018, the company that manages the Brooklyn condominium where cybersecurity expert Roman Sannikov lives was hacked.
The hacker locked down the property manager’s IT system and demanded the company pay a ransom to get back in. Sannikov, who leads a team of analysts scouring the dark web for intel on cybercrime and hacktivism, wasn’t personally affected by the breach; he pays his maintenance fees the old-fashioned way: by check. But as a member of the condo’s board, he had to notify residents and contend with the aftermath.
Yet Sannikov found that many of his neighbors simply shrugged off the news. “People didn’t pay attention to [it] as much as they should have,” he said.