Cybersecurity
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Letters began going out in late March to people potentially impacted by a breach of Syracuse Police Department digital files discovered in 2025. It’s unclear what data was compromised. -
The funding, destined for Warren and Washington counties and the village of Hudson Falls, comes from the Homeland Security program. Its uses include advancing cybersecurity capabilities.
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Pamela McLeod will take over that top tech job in just more than one week. She has public-sector experience and will help build the state’s whole-of-cybersecurity approach to digital defense.
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The adoption of a new statewide threat intelligence platform will enable Oklahoma's IT agency to better share information about bad actors with the other public entities throughout the state.
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The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning the public of the possibility of disinformation campaigns following the upcoming presidential elections in November.
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A debilitating May cyberattack against the courts system has become a focus point of the race between incumbent Republican Mike Foley and his challenger, Democrat Zach Dickerson.
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The social media company reported that it had taken down a small network of accounts originating in China focused on political disruption. Facebook did not say whether the accounts were linked to the Chinese government.
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After California’s landmark data privacy law passed two years ago, measures to water down the legislation have not stopped coming. Now, Proposition 24 aims to help shield the law from new attacks.
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New investigative tools may help average law enforcement agencies more effectively track criminal activity made profitable through cryptocurrency. This includes ransomware schemes and other popular hacks.
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Some school districts have had to push back reopening dates or cancel classes as a result of the cyberattacks against their systems.
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An investigation into the May cyberattack against University of Missouri Health Care indicates that sensitive personal information — including Social Security numbers — of some patients was compromised.
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The Texas Department of Information Resources has negotiated a partnership with cybersecurity firm FireEye and will now be able to offer affordable security services to state and local agencies.
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The newest addition to the state law enforcement agency is housed in the Georgia Cyber Center's Hull-McKnight Building and grew out of an increasing need to hunt down child exploitation and cybercriminals in the state.
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The Georgia entity in charge of the stewardship of Jekyll Island was targeted by a ransomware attack last week. Officials reported that the cyberattack was isolated and systems were restored.
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Cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers may have chosen to target industries already left vulnerable because of large-scale disruption in their global supply chain of materials, experts say.
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A different sort of virus — ransomware — has taken down the computer system at the Newhall School District, forcing a shutdown of distance learning for some 6,000 elementary school students, officials said.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday that as many as 46,000 veterans could have had their financial information compromised by a data breach of the Federal Services Center, the finance department for the agency.
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There were many insights at last week's Utah Virtual Digital Government Summit. One session highlighted the many challenges that come with improving government experience in 2020.
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Russian agents reportedly placed malware in U.S. voter registration systems in 2016 and are actively interfering in the 2020 election. Here's the state of election cybersecurity.
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In early March, when the true scope of the coronavirus pandemic was still widely unknown to the public, misinformation was rampant on social media such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a recent study.
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Cybersecurity researchers say smart devices are playing an increasing role in attacks against organizations. With many working remotely, unsecured smart devices offer an unprecedented vector for attack.
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