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With its longtime federal support now withdrawn, one of the country’s largest public-sector cybersecurity support organizations has moved to a new paid model where states handle the bill for its services.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 Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp. is continuing to work this week to bring its computer network servers back online after a hack that knocked out “all internal network systems” district wide.
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Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory held its eighth Capture the Flag and reached 308 registered participants, setting a record for participation since the program’s start four years ago.
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Pushback against San Diego's smart street lights program — which puts cameras on street lights and collects data — continued at a forum downtown where speakers called it a data goldmine for the private sector.
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The state’s Cyber Operations Center is seeing the benefits of a $15.4 million funding boost. The investment will allow for the hiring of new staff and the deployment of new cybersecurity tools, officials say.
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The new center, which has plans to offer a new M.S. degree in the field for students, also is aimed at helping to fill a large expected shortfall in workers who are qualified to take on cybersecurity jobs.
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The facility designed and built to serve as a hub for cybersecurity industry, academia and government collaboration has continued to see success in bolstering the IT workforce and the state’s economy.
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City officials said that data collected by street lights is solely owned by the city of San Diego. They said no one is spying on the community, and the info gathered by the lights will not be sold to third parties.
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Las Cruces Public Schools Interim Superintendent Karen Trujillo presented some updates on the recent cyberattack that targeted the school district, prompting a shutdown of servers and devices across the district.
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Last week’s municipal election saw the premier of the new ClearCast scanners, paper ballots and other changes in voting technology in Monroe County and other areas across the state and nation.
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A former Minnesota National Guard intelligence analyst, who later focused on cyberthreats against government and critical infrastructure, says an effective security program doesn’t have to break the bank.
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An employee within the city of Toledo almost lost nearly $200,000 of taxpayer money by falling prey to a fraudulent email scheme, but officials said the money was recovered before it was too late.
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The federal government has slapped the Texas Health and Human Services Commission with a $1.6 million fine for a data breach that made the personal health information of 6,617 people available online.
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Nearly 60 people from energy companies and federal agencies attended a meeting in Houston, which included a classified security briefing and panel discussion that focused on protecting energy resources from cyberattacks.
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North Dakota's CISO, Sean Wiese, has been tapped to lead the new Cyber Operations Center initiative, vacating the position for Kevin Ford, a private-sector cybersecurity expert who will assume the role Nov. 20.
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The Department of State is monitoring the election from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) where state election experts, security pros, and emergency personnel are coordinating throughout the day.
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Gov. Tom Wolf ordered new voting systems to be put in place before next year’s presidential primary. That order came in the wake of the discovery of hacking attempts of voting machines in the 2016 presidential primary.
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The new City Council committee discussed the ways in which the ransomware hackers were able to infiltrate Baltimore's IT infrastructure at its first meeting this week.
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City tech leaders and cybersecurity experts confront the tension between elected officials beholden to the public and IT bosses whose primary concern is limiting the information available to bad actors.
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