Cybersecurity
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A bill moving through Congress proposes full scholarships for two-year degrees on the condition that students work two years at the federal, state, local or tribal level after graduating. -
After a nearly five-month investigation, officials determined that compromised sensitive information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account information, passport numbers and more.
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Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp acknowledged that a data breach of a county contractor's system may have exposed the private information of as many as 14,000 ambulance customers.
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The State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program expires in September — but state CIOs told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday the program is a success that should be built on, not ended. Its future remains unclear.
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Recent developments in humanoid robots are grabbing plenty of global attention. Here are some intriguing robot developments and why we all need to pay attention.
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Security experts are currently tuned in to FedRAMP program changes and the potential impact on the way businesses work with government agencies. Some outcomes from its emerging 20x initiative will likely take time to become clear.
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The county’s IT Services Department spotted an unauthorized user on its servers Friday and began taking systems offline. Several systems were down through Wednesday including online courthouse filing. It’s unclear whether resident data was leaked.
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SponsoredAs state government pension programs transition into the digital era, the conveniences of technology bring with them a new and alarming challenge — the prevalence of digital identity fraud.
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Alabama and Oklahoma are the latest states to block AI tools with overseas ties from being used on government devices. Concerns include a lack of security as well as data collection and storage practices.
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The U.S. General Services Administration’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known as FedRAMP, will develop and implement a new approach to authorizations to make them easier and cheaper.
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Troy Stairwalt, who brought more than two decades of experience to the chief information security officer role, has stepped down. The state will accept applications for the new CISO through April 7.
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Data plays an essential role in governance, and a new report from the Open Technology Institute illuminates an urgent need for public-sector adoption of technologies that help enable secure use of data.
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Cobb County Information Technology Services detected unusual activity on a county server and took multiple servers offline to conduct maintenance, according to the county’s communications department.
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Women are increasingly exploring nontraditional channels to enter into the cybersecurity workforce, according to a survey and recent analysis from a cybersecurity professionals member association.
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The ransomware software called Medusa has launched attacks on hundreds of people since 2021, using phishing campaigns as its main method for stealing victims’ credentials, according to federal officials.
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Where do things stand with the deployment of zero-trust architectures in federal, state and local governments across the country — and the world? Here’s a March 2025 roundup.
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The Fort Bend County Commissioners Court voted March 6 to spend nearly $2.6 million to retain the services of several cybersecurity firms. The move comes as the Fort Bend Public Library recently confronted online outages.
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The FBI has alerted smartphone users nationwide to delete fake texts pretending to be from toll road services, delivery companies, or government agencies, saying the smishing scam is moving state to state.
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Launched this week by the state Department of Development, the program aims to provide assistance to smaller firms in strengthening cybersecurity and negotiating changes to the federal contracting landscape.
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New leadership often means new regulations for government, which can create uncertainty for cybersecurity teams that manage and protect vast networks of devices. Automation is one way to streamline some of that work.
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The FBI has issued a warning about a new text-based smishing scam in which recipients receive messages saying that they owe fake charges for using highways.
