Cybersecurity
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With its longtime federal support now withdrawn, one of the country’s largest public-sector cybersecurity support organizations has moved to a new paid model where states handle the bill for its services. -
Legislation proposed by Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, R-Arnold, would do away with several state boards and commissions. If it becomes law, the Missouri Cybersecurity Commission would be among them.
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Cybersecurity experts say AI and automation are changing how much impact manipulated data can have on government technology systems.
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Search engines, like social media algorithms, get you to click on links by learning what other people click on. Enticing misinformation often comes out on top.
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Leaders within the Buffalo, N.Y., Public Schools were taken by surprise by the ransomware attack that afflicted the district's network on Friday, but security experts say they shouldn't have been.
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Virginia Beach police officials have confirmed that some detectives used controversial Clearview AI facial recognition tools in their investigations. The revelations come after earlier denials.
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With state agencies' IT teams largely operating independently, neither the state's outgoing chief information officer nor his successor can be certain all state government business is being conducted securely.
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A wide-ranging breach of security camera technology company Verkada appears to have compromised the security of thousands of private and public institutions across the world, including some in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The lawsuit, submitted in California Superior Court in Alameda County, is part of a growing effort to restrict the use of facial recognition technology. A handful of Bay Area cities were among the first in the U.S. to limit the use of the tech in 2019.
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Now, if you want to poison water, you can do it from the comfort of your home.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The General Services Administration is now offering login.gov, an authentication and identity verification service, to state and local governments. Some restrictions do apply.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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