N4L Report Shows Steep Rise In Online Threats Targeting Schools
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 9:37 am When students returned to school following the nationwide COVID-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown, their schools were targeted by more than 2,000 online threats per minute, according to a new report released today by Crown company Network for Learning (N4L). N4L’s first “data and insights” report reviews online safety and student use of its school-based internet services from April 15 to July 3, 2020 (Term 2). During this time, which includes 22 days of remote learning away from the “Managed Network”, the company blocked more than 120 million cyber secu...