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Morgan Rogers’ fourth goal of the season, an Ollie Watkins penalty and Matty Cash’s finish put Villa 3-0 up after 34 minutes. Mikkel Damsgaard pulled one back for Brentford in the second half but the damage had been done as Villa ended their eight-match winless run in all competitions. Emery was relieved to end the unwanted streak but quickly turned his attention to the next fixture against Southampton on Saturday. “We broke a spell of bad results we were having,” the Villa boss said. “We started the first five or 10 minutes not in control of the game but then progressively we controlled. “Today we achieved those three points and it has given us confidence again but even like that it’s not enough. We have to keep going and think about the next match against Southampton on Saturday. “The message was try to focus on each match, try to forget the table. How we can recover confidence and feel comfortable at home. Today was a fantastic match.” Tyrone Mings returned to the starting line-up in the Premier League for the first time since August 2023. Emery admitted it has been a long road back for the 31-year-old and is pleased to have him back. He added: “Mings played in the Champions league but it’s the first time in the league for a year and three months. “I think he played fantastic – he might be tired tomorrow but will be ready for Saturday again. “It was very, very long, the injury he had. His comeback is fantastic for him and everybody, for the doctor and physio and now he’s training everyday.” Brentford fell to a sixth away defeat from seven games and have picked up only a solitary point on the road this season. They have the best home record in the league, with 19 points from seven matches, but they have the joint worst away record. Bees boss Thomas Frank is confident form will improve on the road. He said: “On numbers we can’t argue we are better at home than away, but on numbers it’s a coincidence. I think two of the seven away games have been bad. “The other games we performed well in big spells. I’m confident at the end of the season we will have some wins away from home.” Frank felt Villa should not have been given a penalty when Ethan Pinnock brought Watkins down. He added: “I want to argue the penalty. I don’t think it is (one). I think Ollie kicked back and hit Ethan, yes there is an arm on the shoulder but threshold and all that – but that’s not the reason we lost.”COMMENTARY We often think of high-risk industries like finance or healthcare when considering the risks of data being targeted and exfiltrated. However, the education industry and its infrastructure — which require personal identifiable information (PII) — are often overlooked. For many, this exchange of PII for goods and services (in this case, enrolling in school) may not seem worrisome. But for K-12 students, it's a potentially early introduction to cybercrime and its damages. With some schools already under cyber threat , the urgency of reevaluating data protection strategies becomes increasingly clear. In 2023, educational institutions saw increased data breach activity . For many adults, the reality of data breaches is well-known and often just a part of daily life — don't click on suspicious links, enable credit monitoring, and be wary of scam calls . This is a faraway concept for younger students in K-12 schools, yet their data is some of the most vulnerable. One vulnerability in an application used across the education sector can have a huge attack surface for these students. For example, schools use apps and online resources to support teaching materials. Still, educators can't ensure these vendors are appropriately safeguarding the PII, such as names and emails. Examples like Los Angeles Unified School District and its experience with a chatbot named "Ed." On the surface, Ed was meant to be a personal assistant to the district's students and used their data. However, when the bot's startup company, AllHere, went dark and the chatbot disappeared, questions remained regarding where precisely the student data went. Schools across the United States are well into their school year, meaning parents have already provided shot records, medical history, and other sensitive information regarding their children. That information is stored across school servers, possibly even in third-party databases like AllHere's chatbot. These parents of K-12 students may be unknowingly giving threat actors the information they need to steal their child's identity before they ever enter college. Tucson Unified School Distric t experienced its own run-in with cybercriminals and ransomware in 2023 when the ransomware group Royal extorted what they claimed to be all student personal information — including passports, Social Security numbers, birth certificate information, and more. Research from Comparitech shows that data breaches have affected more than 37.6 million records across K-12 schools and higher education since 2005. Between 2018 and 2021, 61% of targeted institutions in the United States education sector were K-12 schools. While more records were affected in ransomware attacks targeting universities and colleges, this interest in our youth's data highlights their vulnerability to cyberattacks. Instances like the Tucson incident are not as rare as many educators and parents would hope. Our youth, lacking the same access or abilities to monitor their credit or make informed decisions after cyber events, are particularly vulnerable. The full effects of a successful ransomware attack like the one Tucson Unified School District experienced can be devastating for the incredibly vulnerable student demographic. We've reached record-breaking ransomware attacks in 2024, and our data across all industries is at risk. However, the inundation of data breaches and data theft paired with daily organizational demand for consumer data has created an interesting phenomenon: Consumers don't trust their data will ever be secured. Cybercriminals are opportunistic and self-serving, often looking for the easiest way to steal valuable information they can exfiltrate and extort for money. They are exploiting vulnerabilities and pushing out phishing campaigns to steal data for their own benefit, but this behavior doesn't just affect adults. While historically the education sector has not been a priority target for these groups, the outbreak of 2023 highlights a new reality. Threat actors are becoming more aggressive in their methods, and data protection across K-12 and higher education institutions must be prioritized moving forward. Higher and lower education organizations have reported increasing ransomware attack rates starting in 2021 according to the " 2024 Sophos State of Education " report. The same report also shows attacks across both lower and higher education institutions are becoming more dangerous: While creating an impenetrable defense is impossible, current strategies rely on creating barriers like firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and regular security audits that are proving inadequate against sophisticated threats. The education sector must reassess its data security. The education sector must prioritize comprehensive data protection strategies to safeguard PII in an aggressive threat environment. By doing so, schools and universities can mitigate identity theft and ransomware risks, ensuring data security for students and faculty. Moving forward, it is crucial for the education sector to recognize its vulnerability and take proactive steps to strengthen its defenses, protecting the future of our children and educators. Vichai Levy currently serves as the Vice President of Research and Development at Protegrity. He is an experienced software engineer with over two decades in the field, and a career rooted in creating impactful and resilient technology. Levy specializes in designing, developing, and implementing enterprise data security solutions driven by passion for innovation and robust software design.
A Goodreads user who appears to be Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old arrested Monday and named a person of interest in the slaying of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson , gave a 4-star rating to the manifesto of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski . The review from January 2024 was written by a user with the profile name "Luigi (lnmangione)" and the same photo that Mangione used in other social media profiles . Kaczynski, convicted of a series of mail bombings between 1978 and 1995 that killed 3 and injured 23, was a "mathematics prodigy" begins the 8-paragraph review of the manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future." The review concludes with a 4-paragraph quote the reviewer said he'd found online that ends: "’Violence never solved anything’ is a statement uttered by cowards and predators." The review said Kaczynski’s manifesto examined "the question of 21st century quality of life.” “It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out," the reviewer says. “He was a violent individual − rightfully imprisoned − who maimed innocent people," Mangione wrote. "While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.” More: Who is Luigi Mangione, detained in UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing? Here's what we know The four-paragraph passage the reviewer says he found “online” includes the following: “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution." New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Monday that Mangione had been detained by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, carrying a 3D-printed gun, a silencer, and documents indicating "some ill will toward corporate America." The unnamed writer quoted in Mangione's review of The Unabomber Manifesto had antipathy to spare. "Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn't possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense,” the passage reads. "These companies don't care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids," the quote continued. "They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive?” While New York Mayor Eric Adams called Mangione "a strong person of interest" in Thompson's death, he was not immediately charged in the slaying. A lawyer for Mangione could not be reached for comment.