Possible cyberattack leads to Internet shutdown at Albany schools - Times Union

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As they analyse the imaginable attack, schoolhouse administrators impulse teachers to enactment offline and students to enactment distant Chromebooks

Nov. 7, 2022

Albany City School District teachers person been told to enactment disconnected the Internet for the adjacent 3 days and students were told not to usage their chromebooks oregon district-issued hotspots. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

ALBANY – The Albany City School territory is investigating a imaginable cyber onslaught and is telling teachers to enactment offline for the adjacent 3 days.

Students were told not to usage their Chromebooks oregon district-issued hotspots.

Google and Microsoft Teams were besides reportedly unavailable, and 1 teacher said they were told to study schoolroom absences via a idiosyncratic device.

That means teachers volition person to thatch without connecting their laptops to projection screens successful their classrooms – a communal mode of presenting accusation – and volition not beryllium capable to nonstop oregon person emails.

Students typically usage Chromebooks to entree programs wherever they signifier mathematics and work books, with computerized learning acceptable to their individualized level.

One teacher said administrators acknowledged the ban's interaction connected education, but said it had to beryllium done due to the fact that of the attempted cyberattack.

District officials person not yet responded to messages seeking comment.

Albany schools would beryllium acold from the archetypal to beryllium deed by a cyberattack. Last year, Guilderland schools and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faced cyberattacks.

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