Cybersecurity
-
CIO Shawnzia Thomas decodes why "cyber discipline" drives AI, modernization, and trust in Georgia’s 2026 tech agenda, and how cyber resilience is achievable through digital literacy and upskilling. -
Officials from the state Department of Accounting and General Services warned residents that bad actors are “creating deceptive web addresses” to trick them into releasing personal information.
-
As a Missouri website that serves more than 50,000 state employees remains shut down after suspicious activity, it appears that quick work by fraud protection systems may have blocked unauthorized transactions.
More Stories
-
Portland Metro, an elected planning body serving the greater Portland, Ore. region, is no longer working with movement data company Replica, due to disagreements around the level of data the company would share.
-
Vitaliy Panych, who took over as the state’s chief information security officer in January, discussed broad-level IT and cybersecurity issues and goals, working with security partners and best practices during a recent virtual event.
-
Damage from the 2019 ransomware attack on the city police department internal affairs computer system stretches back to files as early as September 2017, according to the district attorney’s office.
-
The company disclosed last week that nation-state hackers based in China were exploiting previously unknown flaws in on-premise versions of the software. The revelation raised alarms throughout the U.S. government.
-
The General Services Administration is now offering login.gov, an authentication and identity verification service, to state and local governments. Some restrictions do apply.
-
Ultimately, legislators are going to have to enact protections giving people far more control over whether and how personal information is used online, ideally by action at the federal level.
-
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a cyberattack from multiple, remote locations intended to cripple an organization’s online operations, and it’s one of the top four cybersecurity threats of our time.
-
Washington state senators probing the breach of a file transfer system used by the auditor’s office are criticizing the lack of transparency in the process. The breach exposed the information of 1.3 million residents.
-
The malware attack perpetrated by Russian operatives against company systems may prompt new federal regulations around when and how technology companies report data breach incidents.
-
The California DMV issued a warning about a new phishing scam related to REAL ID compliance that asks potential victims for their Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information.
-
This year, $118.7 billion in technology spending is projected for state and local governments. Industry experts shared their projections during the annual Beyond the Beltway event, along with challenges facing the market.
-
A federal district court in southern California has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s collection of real-time trip data from shared mobility providers.
-
A class-action lawsuit against the company claimed that the social media giant violated privacy laws by storing biometric data, like facial scans, without getting user approval first.
-
States are trying to beef up their cybersecurity as threats evolve during the pandemic.
-
Lawmakers in the state voted unanimously to tightly restrict the use of facial recognition technology by requiring total agency control of the technology as well as new laws approving individual deployments.
-
State Auditor Pat McCarthy's office plans to send email notifications to an estimated 1.3 million people whose personal information was exposed in a massive data breach disclosed earlier this month.
-
SponsoredActive Directory recovery is a crucial — and often overlooked — part of any cybersecurity plan.
-
SponsoredOn February 8, 2021, the City of Oldsmar, Florida gave a press conference to disclose “an unlawful intrusion to the city’s water treatment system.”
