Ransomware Hackers Provide a Tough Lesson for US Schools

A hack on Los Angeles schools is a brutal reminder that educational institutions are still too vulnerable to ransomware. But first...

Today’s must-reads:

• Elon Musk’s Twitter deal has employees wondering whether to stay or go
• Canon will spend $350 million on a plant to expand its chipmaking
• Taiwan pledged to work with the US to keep state-of-the-art tech away from China’s military

Lesson No. 1: Secure the schools

In what has become a routine, if depressing, ritual, the Los Angeles Unified School District has been trying to fend off a ransomware hack conducted by a group called Vice Society.

The incident was ...