Why would foreign hackers be interested in attacking the Ottawa School District? Perhaps the better question to ask is why wouldn’t they? That question is what is leading district officials to beef up cybersecurity. Technology Director Dean Grell told the school board of recent experience.
Grell says, “He is setting up several layers of cybersecurity in hopes of preventing such things as ransomware attacks.” This is where hackers hijack institution’s files, and only when the institution pays some kind of ransom will the hackers give the information back to the owner
