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With its longtime federal support now withdrawn, one of the country’s largest public-sector cybersecurity support organizations has moved to a new paid model where states handle the bill for its services.
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With a presidential election on the line in 2020, Georgia is switching to a new voting company, Dominion Voting Systems, that state evaluators ranked second-best and that critics said will leave elections vulnerable.
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“Foreign adversaries” and “malign foreign actors” are trying to influence and attack Florida’s election systems, FBI officials say, and they need help from citizens to try to combat them in 2020.
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Dozens of municipal government agencies in New Jersey have been victimized by cyberattacks over the past two years, but stakeholders have been reluctant to make those attacks public, officials say.
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While .gov domains are widely used for official government websites at the state and federal levels, local governments often use .org, .net or .com domains, making them easy for hackers to impersonate.
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Computer systems at the city of San Marcos were hacked last week in an attack that has interfered with email accounts and other internal functions, but has not resulted in data breaches, city officials said.
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Many sites offer the ability to 'opt out' of targeted advertisements, but doing so isn't easy. Simplifying and standardizing opt-outs would help improve privacy on the web.
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The steady rise in ransomware attacks on city governments across the country can be attributed to a small but devastating number of evasive phishing tactics developed, tested and proven successful by hackers.
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As a new year approaches, myriad states are looking to adopt their own, distinct privacy laws — a fact that leaves many in the business and technology industries anxious about the road ahead.
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Tom Burt, Microsoft’s vice president of customer security and trust, said the methods used in the most recent attack are similar to previous attacks against various governments, militaries, think tanks and financial companies.
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In its first 25 years, the Internet grew dramatically and organically with the users seeming to follow the same positive principles the scientists did. In the decades that followed, however, other aspects began to show through.
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The U.S. defense community is coming to understand that AI will significantly transform, if not completely reinvent, the world's military power balance.
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During remarks at a cybersecurity summit at Salve Regina University's Pell Center, Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gobea said computer-based attacks highlight the need for physical voter records and ballots.
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Westmoreland County, Pa., commissioners are defending their selection of new voting machines amid criticism that the system is both less secure and more costly than other options on the market.
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The first internet communication was underwhelming, thanks to a computer crash. But a lot has happened since then – including key decisions that helped build the internet of today.
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In response to the growing threat to local governments, a team of tech-savvy Texans is helping to chart a new strategy for immobilizing attacks and helping victims recover from data breaches.
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During congressional testimony on the social media company’s plans for its own cryptocurrency, House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters raised the question of whether Facebook should be broken up.
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The situation in New York mirrors the national debate over technology supporters say is a key crime-fighting tool but that critics have dubbed Orwellian by nature. Some cities have already banned the technology.
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The elite cyberbattalion, announced by Gov. Eric Holcomb Tuesday, will be in charge of national cyberwarfare and cybersecurity operations. It is the fifth such battalion of its kind.
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