Cybersecurity
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As part of IBM’s Cyber Campus initiative, a private university in Florida will open a 1,500-square-foot cyber range facility to give cybersecurity and IT students practice in a simulated environment. -
The national Small Business Development Center is taking a program that was started in Delaware and offering it through its full 1,200-center network across the country.
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The state Senate Committee on Business and Commerce considered whether critical infrastructure tech with foreign connections could create security vulnerabilities — signaling the possibility of a policy debate.
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The number is expected to grow as the wide-ranging investigation continues. The hackers’ motive remains unknown, and it’s not clear what they reviewed or stole from the computer networks they infiltrated.
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In addition to utilizing fact checkers to flag potentially misleading information, researchers say these sites could also combat the falsities on their platforms by providing literacy education to users.
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The top federal cybersecurity agency has issued its most urgent warning yet about a sophisticated and extensive computer breach, saying it posed a "grave risk" to cybernetworks maintained by government.
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The plan to use aerial surveillance to track suspects after a violent crime is, once again, being floated by city leaders. Opponents have argued the program is an affront to the civil rights of average citizens.
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An alleged hack of federal agencies by Russian operators could precipitate more widespread concern for supply chain cybersecurity — a silver lining to a scandal that continues to get bigger, uglier and more complicated.
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Chris Krebs, the former director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told the Senate Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday that claims of election fraud are without merit.
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America's public schools often lack the adequate security to protect their students' most sensitive data from being linked on the web.
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Hackers used a vulnerability in SolarWinds software in breaches on U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, Treasury and Commerce, the State Department and the National Institutes of Health.
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Washington state is responding to "known security vulnerabilities" to its systems after the federal government issued warnings that software had been breached in what could have been an attack by Russian hackers.
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As the city restores in-house tech systems following last week's attempted ransomware attack, Independence, Mo., officials have not said whether the attack compromised personal information for utility customers.
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On Monday, a panel of cybersecurity experts discussed whether the lessons of election administration from 2020 would "stick" or whether partisan woes would see a backlash against effective methods.
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Despite the approval of $4 million in ongoing technology upgrades to prevent cyberattacks, the city was hit with ransomware earlier this month. It's unclear what kind of information might have been compromised.
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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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