Cybersecurity
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Its ability to send residents emergency notifications was crippled by the November cyber attack. Since then, the local government has relied on state and federal systems to send out alerts. -
In the wake of a scam last year, the state agency has refocused on data encryption and security, and will do monthly cyber training and awareness. It has recovered nearly all of the stolen funds.
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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.
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Frank Johnson, who was at the helm during Baltimore's recent ransomware attack and subsequent recovery, is on leave, city officials said. His deputy, Todd Carter, is serving as acting director.
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The duration of Johnson's leave is not clear, but a city official says deputy IT chief Todd Carter will be stepping in to manage day-to-day operations. Johnson faced criticism for his response to the May cyberattack.
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Rockford Public Schools experienced trouble with its phone and Internet services following a ransomware attack Friday morning. Now, school board officials will vote on spending $376,300 for IT upgrades.
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The Russians won’t be alone in spreading disinformation in 2020. Their most likely imitator will be Iran. Also, Instagram could get even more infected with intentional misinformation than it has been.
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Facebook serves as a gatekeeper of the information diets of more than 200 million Americans and 2 billion users worldwide.
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The Edcouch-Elsa school district is taking further action to address the sale of computers with sensitive information through policy changes and efforts in public transparency after failing to do so earlier this year.
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Because most municipalities don’t have millions to spend on cybersecurity the way big corporations do, they can be easy prey. Ransomware has targeted more than 70 local and state governments so far this year.
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More than two weeks after a cyberattack on the Lake County Government Center forced a shutdown of email service and internal applications, the county police email is back up and running, officials said.
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Pearson, a British-owned education publishing company, is at the center of a lawsuit filed by an Illinois woman and her daughter over the handling of a data breach involving student personal information.
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The FBI is now investigating a cybertheft of the funds from the state’s pension accounts for retired Oklahoma highway troopers, state agents, park rangers and other law enforcement officers.
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Ohio’s top elections official will ask a state budgetary panel to allow him to tap just more than $1.7 million in federal funds to monitor county boards of elections for potential cybersecurity threats.
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New Bedford was hit with a ransomware attack in July, during which the perpetrators demanded $5.3 million. Officials recently revealed that the attack caused a widespread shutdown of city computers.
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If the very people in charge of local governments do not understand the need for cybersecurity and fully support it, it is more likely than not that they will experience serious cybersecurity problems.
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Artificial intelligence holds great promise for medicine, but safeguards are needed to ensure it does not harm patients.
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The Charlton, Mass., computer network was attacked with malicious software, freezing documents, emails and main servers. Local governments across the country have been suffering increasing cyberattacks in recent months.
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Dozens of countries and hundreds of firms and nonprofits are fed up with digital violence and are working toward greater cybersecurity for all.
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The agencies’ risk profile was ranked on five factors: ability to identify information technology assets, protect them, detect attacks, and respond to and recover from attacks.
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Attacks this year have ranged from cities to rural counties. A community college was hit as well as a sheriff's office and an emergency medical service, which led to patient records being compromised.
