Cybersecurity
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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.
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Anonymous fraudsters posing as town officials emailed at least one resident seeking a wire transfer payment for a permit. The incident may be connected to a national phishing scheme.
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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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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.
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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.
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States are trying to beef up their cybersecurity as threats evolve during the pandemic.
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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.
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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.
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SponsoredActive Directory recovery is a crucial — and often overlooked — part of any cybersecurity plan.
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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.”
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A coalition of federal, state and local authorities has been assembled to combat the criminal movement of cyberfraud proceeds through banks in the Atlanta area by employing Business Email Compromise fraud schemes.
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A new measure would give Washington residents the ability to access, transfer, correct and delete data that Big Tech companies — such as Google and Facebook — compile and give them the right to opt out of targeted advertising.
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According to findings from Crowdstrike’s 2021 Global Threat Report, the health-care and pharmaceutical industries bore the brunt of cyberattacks in 2020 as hackers searched for information on COVID-19 and vaccine development.
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