Cybersecurity
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Welcome to the second installment of this comprehensive annual look at global cybersecurity industry prediction reports from the top security vendors, publications and thought leaders. -
State leaders prioritized AI advancement in 2025; CIO Alberto Gonzalez said it will help support being efficient and improved service delivery for residents. Onboarding staff has been greatly quickened.
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What cyber trends and predictions are coming for 2026? Here’s your annual security industry prediction report roundup for the new year, highlighting insights from the top vendors, publications and thought leaders.
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Election misinformation typically involves false narratives of fraud that include out-of-context or otherwise misleading images and faulty statistics as purported evidence.
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SponsoredThe cybersecurity skills gap and legacy systems often leave governments struggling to keep ahead of the shifting cybersecurity landscape. By looking “outside the box,” and finding the right approach for its environment, one state agency was able to improve its security posture and meet evolving cyber threats.
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Some 27 websites posing as news outlets were seized by federal authorities this week to cut down on disinformation surrounding the presidential election. The sites had ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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The University of Vermont Health Network's set of component hospitals are still continuing to feel the lingering effects of a cyberattack one week after the incident initially took place there.
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In early figures released by the California Secretary of State’s Office, nearly 60 percent of voters supported Proposition 24, which seeks to reinforce and redefine parts of the 2019 California Consumer Privacy Act.
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Technical issues with the electronic poll books used to check voters in forced at least one polling place to abandon the technology for a traditional paper record. The delays also meant extended voting hours at some polls.
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Despite concerns about foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election, officials with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say they were able to keep cyberthreats at arm's length on Election Day.
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The Los Angeles Police Department has installed new recording technology on its helicopters that allows it to store video. Previously, the equipment could only send live feeds to officers on the ground.
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The ongoing 2020 election has fueled fears — some valid, some unfounded — about fraud and cyberthreats before and after the votes are counted. Federal officials say Election Day is just halftime in the cybersecurity fight.
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The Florida National Guard’s role in election-related missions remained limited as of Monday, even as Guard units across the country mobilize to assist with traffic control at polling sites.
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One scenario troubling U.S. officials is the possibility of simple tactics that may create distrust about the integrity of the vote. For example, overwhelming state and local websites with traffic until they go offline.
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The St. Lawrence Health System is one of the latest victims in an ongoing cyberattack campaign against U.S. hospitals. Federal agencies first issued a warning about the cyberthreat in late October.
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The major social media firms have taken a largely piecemeal and fractured approach to managing the problem.
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The county government's network, email and phone lines were rendered "inoperable for an undetermined amount of time,” County Manager Dan LaMontagne said Wednesday. The attack did not affect early voting or 911 systems.
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A ransomware attack on election-related government computers in a Georgia county raises the specter of more disruptions for Election Day voting and vote tabulation.
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Hospitals and health-care systems across the nation and in Massachusetts are facing increased ransomware threats, federal law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warned, urging organizations to prepare.
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A recent ransomware attack that took over some Hall County, Ga., election information will apparently not harm other election systems in the state, according to the secretary of state's office.
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Michigan is familiar with being a target of misinformation, having dealt with Russia in 2016. The state is yet again another target of misinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
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