Cybersecurity
-
Following the city’s dismissal of Chief Information Security Officer Brian Gardner, Jeremiah Clifton, its cybersecurity officer for digital risk, will serve as CISO for now. -
Court officials are warning of bogus text messages claiming to be from the District Court or the state Department of Motor Vehicles. The real court never texts, calls or emails to seek personal information.
-
The Internet Crime Complaint Center identified more than 2,100 ransomware incidents in 2025 directed at U.S. critical infrastructure, including health care, energy and critical manufacturing, among other sectors.
More Stories
-
Emergency services are not affected, but the county’s Department of Motor Vehicles and vital statistics systems are offline. An investigation with local, state and federal partners is ongoing.
-
With the release of Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos, how should CISOs navigate the arrival of automated exploit chaining, collapsing patch cycles and the inevitable rise of adversarial AI?
-
Specifically, Vermont is now paying for a statewide membership program, which extends cybersecurity support to the municipalities and other public-sector organizations within its borders.
-
The extent of the data breach is still unclear, and city officials have said they are investigating to find out what was taken, who was responsible and how the city’s cybersecurity was compromised.
-
The FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report shows that emerging technologies are shaping cyber theft, with digital fraud and related losses reaching new highs in 2025, topping more than $21 billion forfeited.
-
After a ransomware incident in January, officials made changes including updating IT protocols. A second attack this week took affected systems offline, but not 911 and emergency services.
-
Following the county’s second such attack this year, Minnesota’s National Guard will provide cyber protection support. The more recent incident was continuing to impact emergency and municipal services Tuesday.
-
U.S. intelligence agencies are warning private-sector companies throughout the nation that Iranian actors “are conducting exploitation activity” that has resulted in disruptions to U.S. critical infrastructure.
-
Letters began going out in late March to people potentially impacted by a breach of Syracuse Police Department digital files discovered in 2025. It’s unclear what data was compromised.
-
The funding, destined for Warren and Washington counties and the village of Hudson Falls, comes from the Homeland Security program. Its uses include advancing cybersecurity capabilities.
-
Pamela McLeod will take over that top tech job in just more than one week. She has public-sector experience and will help build the state’s whole-of-cybersecurity approach to digital defense.
-
As part of IBM’s Cyber Campus initiative, a private university in Florida will open a 1,500-square-foot cyber range facility to give cybersecurity and IT students practice in a simulated environment.
-
The national Small Business Development Center is taking a program that was started in Delaware and offering it through its full 1,200-center network across the country.
-
The state Senate Committee on Business and Commerce considered whether critical infrastructure tech with foreign connections could create security vulnerabilities — signaling the possibility of a policy debate.
-
As state officials confront several recent high-profile cases of fraud, scrutiny of the way Minnesota handles requests for public assistance has increased, with some saying tech can help the situation.
-
The incident is affecting the towns of Pepperell, Dunstable, Townsend and Ashby. It has taken down emergency and business phone lines for police, fire, and emergency medical services departments, but not 911.
-
Town officials are investigating the incident, which has impacted computer systems and public safety departments. Its 911 phones are working normally and no private data appears to have been compromised.
-
A public research university in West Virginia is working with the financial technology company Intuit on a student-led Security Operations Center, where students will simulate and problem-solve real-world scenarios.
Most Read
- Pennsylvania to Roll Out GenAI Tools Across State Workforce
- CoSN 2026: Student-Led Cyber Programs Incentivize Culture of Safety
- Colorado to End Chief Data Officer Position, CDO Departs
- Was Washington State’s EV Incentive Program Too Successful?
- Indianapolis-Marion County CIO to Depart for Private Sector
