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With its longtime federal support now withdrawn, one of the country’s largest public-sector cybersecurity support organizations has moved to a new paid model where states handle the bill for its services.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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Racine, Wisc., has approved most of the city’s Rental Empowerment and Neighborhood Tenant Services initiative, but a malware attack on the city’s computer networks could delay the work.
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Disinformation of all different stripes is still a persistent problem when it comes to the COVID-19 crisis. Increased reliance on social media and spiking Internet use have helped fuel these campaigns.
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The small suburb initially told residents that their personal information had not been compromised in the March incident, but hackers' decision to publish the city's data online shows otherwise.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers are urging U.S. cybersecurity officials to enhance both defense and counterstrikes towards foreign hackers targeting the country’s health-care system amid the pandemic.
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Such a change would upend centuries of precedent. Some lawmakers in the state are hesitant to depart from the tradition of coming together to debate and legislate, even during a global health crisis.
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The novel coronavirus has surfaced new approaches to monitoring the spread of the pandemic. Some officials have called for cellphone tracking to meet this end, stirring controversy around personal privacy.
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A meeting of the town’s legislative council earlier this week was forced offline after so-called zoombombers began making racist and homophobic remarks, some of them directed at council members.
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Lawmakers are expected to have to return to Washington this week to vote on an update to an aid package for small businesses, and House leaders plan to use the session to also approve an emergency proxy-voting procedure.
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A cyberattack on New York state's computer network just recently came to light. The incident occurred in late January, just as the state was preparing for battle with the novel coronavirus.
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The heat-reading surveillance systems have been sold as a potential "virus spotter," but state and local governments may be hesitant to adopt them over privacy and civil liberty concerns.
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Camden County’s computer systems went offline following a cyberattack. The incident included an “encryption attack,” presumably ransomware, that disrupted daily operations, according to local officials.
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The Kennebunk Select Board held a troll-free meeting using Zoom technology Tuesday, a welcome reversal from last week, when intruders bombarded a special meeting with vulgar and prejudiced words and images.
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Internal COVID-19 data used by the Oakland County, Mich., health department was briefly exposed during a leak, officials reported Thursday. The leak involved a non-public map unintentionally marked as public.
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The state of Connecticut is looking to ease out of the stay-at-home coronavirus orders with plans including extensive medical surveillance and enforced voluntary quarantines. The quarantines would be enforced with mobile phone technology.
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With solutions emerging to track the spread of coronavirus, privacy advocates are increasingly worried about the potential for mass surveillance. The lack of federal privacy laws have heightened these fears.
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Since the pandemic began, cybersecurity experts say they have seen an uptick in attempted ransomware and other hacking attempts on hospitals, health-care systems, clinical labs and research centers.
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Timothy Walsh, a network and security supervisor for Enterprise Technology Services, has been named as the state’s new chief information security officer. Walsh replaces Arlen Fletcher.
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A new Government Accountability Office report says that the Department of Defense has not taken the necessary precautions for off-site work and must take decisive actions to improve cyberhygiene.
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