Cybersecurity
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A contract with Motorola Solutions will enable the county to do a better job of safeguarding its emergency radio communications system. Tower sites and radio dispatch consoles will get 24/7 security. -
With its longtime federal support now withdrawn, one of the country’s largest public-sector cybersecurity support organizations has moved to a new paid model where states handle the bill for its services.
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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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Chatham County, N.C., is continuing to slowly rebound from a late October cyberattack that shut down most of the county’s functions and temporarily cut off public access to government services.
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Bad news for educators: Even as public schools have been hammered with cyberattacks amidst the pandemic, data shows this trend is likely to continue — or even escalate — throughout the coming academic year.
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This year, many consumers are already getting hit by phishing emails and texts involving COVID-19 tests and COVID-19 studies, according to the Better Business Bureau serving eastern Michigan and the upper peninsula.
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After suspicious traffic on the city server forced computers to be shut down to external access for several days, city leaders voted to double the budget for the information technology department.
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As of Nov. 16, the Greenville Police Department had received 587 alerts from the license plate scanning system, resulting in 11 warrants, and found 52 stolen vehicles based on those alerts.
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The attack, which occurred over the weekend, resulted in "technical difficulties and disruption to multiple services" but was discovered and halted "before it could infect the full city network," the city manager said.
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A confluence of social and political pressures is making a comprehensive federal privacy law seem inevitable. The incoming Biden administration could help ensure legislation heads in the right direction.
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A study conducted by the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University earlier this year found that cybersecurity protocols and general concern about cyberthreats were inadequate across many agencies.
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Massachusetts and many other states have been targeted by international criminal gangs making large numbers of illegitimate jobless claims using stolen financial information from commercial data breaches.
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A new administration — as well as swirling national debate about the biometric technology — is behind a push to get lawmakers to re-examine its use in policing and the challenges it presents to privacy and equity.
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Gov. Charlie Baker is taking a cautious approach to the police reform bill on his desk, which includes — among other things — limits on facial recognition tech. Baker says clarity is needed to understand the limitations.
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Kalispell Regional Healthcare said the breach stemmed from a phishing scheme in which hackers used emails to bait employees into providing their login credentials. Personal records were compromised in the incident.
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As a conversation around federal funding for the cybersecurity needs of state and local governments continues, a congressional hearing last week gave tech officials a chance to plead their case.
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The company has met the strict cloud security standards of the federal government for its capital management software, which is meant to handle the whole lifecycle of a program as well as needs such as report generation.
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According to Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, the personal information of 113,000 Alaskans was compromised in an exposure involving the online voter registration database. The outcome of the recent election was not affected, however.
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Experts say cyberattacks on public school systems are on the rise around the country. Just days after a Baltimore County attack, schools in Alabama were also shut down by a ransomware incident.
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While much of its clientele is in the national defense space, the SAP NS2-backed collaborative is hoping to make progress on other government problems such as cloud management and supply chain security in 2021.
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People are proving to be the weak link in efforts to track the novel coronavirus through smartphone applications. Experts say the system only works if a lot of people buy in, but people only buy in if they know how it all works.
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