Cybersecurity
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A breach in a Minnesota Department of Human Services system allowed inappropriate access to the private data of nearly 304,000 people, with officials saying there is no evidence the data was misused. -
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.
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With its longtime federal support now withdrawn, one of the country’s largest public-sector cybersecurity support organizations has moved to a new paid model where states handle the bill for its services.
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The data appears to have been accessed by a hacking group based out of Vietnam, cybersecurity experts believe. Of the affected users, 99 percent were from the U.S. and most of the others came from Vietnam.
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The total cost of the cyberattack that brought down New Orleans' computer systems almost a week ago and how long it will take to bring them back online both remained unclear as of late last week.
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The legislation would tighten cybersecurity at insurance companies in the state, following news that Minnesota Blue Cross Blue Shield allowed hundreds of thousands of serious vulnerabilities over several years.
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Congress sends the White House $7.6 billion for the Census Bureau and Facebook revealed that it would remove incorrect or misleading census information from its platform in the new year.
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Treasurer Jessica McClellan said the county was alerted about the malware attack Nov. 1, but that the initial infection of the Web portal happened Oct. 23. Intruders did not view any banking or credit card information.
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At the turn of the millennium, technologists envisioned a future world of autonomous vehicles, online voting and high-flying drones. How does the state of tech in 2020 compare to predictions made on the cusp of Y2K?
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Starting Jan. 1, 2020, Californians will be able to deny retail and social media site owners permission to sell their personal data. But new methods of incursions into personal privacy are constantly being cooked up.
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Officials in the Florida city struck by ransomware earlier this month say the professional services firm will help them determine whether any data was compromised during the attack and, if so, what data.
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Thousands of customers of Marietta Power & Water Department may have recently had their information stolen as part of a software hack of a bill payment system that was discovered earlier this month.
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Grappling with a nationwide concern about a wave of cyberattacks that have been targeting local governments, Barton County, Kan., has approved new purchases to bolster its IT security protections.
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All levels of government, as well as the private sector, face growing dangers from cyberthreats. That’s why there needs to be a centralized approach to cyberpolicies before a crisis occurs.
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A hack has affected computer systems in Galt, Calif., allowing encrypted access to data on certain city servers without resulting in the exposure of personal data, according to a news release by Galt police.
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Henry County has spent more than $600,000 restoring its computer network in the five months since a cyberattack crippled the county government’s online operations, according to figures provided by the Atlanta community.
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Some cybercrime experts believe the recent cyberattack on New Orleans local government is the result of Ryuk, which is a type of ransomware used to hamstring computer data until a bitcoin price is paid.
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As more cyberattacks target local governments around the country, including a recent high-profile case in Florida, an international software security company has declared the number of attacks is at a crisis level.
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Researchers believe that steps taken by the U.S. Census Bureau to safeguard individual response data could degrade the value of that data in areas like housing policy, transportation planning and legislative map-drawing.
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a press conference Monday that the current recovery procedures are working in response to the citywide cyberattack that targeted public computers Friday.
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The recent cyberincident appears to have impaired a number of large city systems, but officials say recovery efforts are underway. The ransomware is the third large attack in the state this year alone.
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