Second-largest school district in the US a victim of cyberattack
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest school district in the US, was hit with a ransomware attack a few days ago. Global cybercrime could reach $10.5 trillion by 2025. Cyberattacks cannot be seen, but their effects can be—a clear illustration of how Satan chooses to use secret sin in Christians’ lives.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 1:02.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Friday, September 16th, 2022. Today's daily article is written by Dr. Jim |
| 1:13.9 | Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. It is estimated that global cybercrime |
| 1:20.8 | will reach $10.5 trillion by 2025, an amount larger than every economy in the world except the U.S. and |
| 1:30.3 | China. |
| 1:31.3 | For example, Los Angeles Unified, the second largest school district in the U.S., with more than |
| 1:37.3 | 640,000 students enrolled, was hit with a ransomware attack a few days ago. |
| 1:43.4 | Such attacks on schools and universities are on the rise. |
| 1:47.8 | Cybersecurity threats are also escalating against the U.S. water industry, |
| 1:52.8 | the U.S. health care system, and industrial infrastructure, |
| 1:56.4 | including electricity grids, oil and gas facilities, and manufacturing plants. |
| 2:02.0 | Uber technology said yesterday that it was investigating a cybersecurity incident that forced |
| 2:08.2 | the company to shut down several internal communications and engineering systems. |
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