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With its longtime federal support now withdrawn, one of the country’s largest public-sector cybersecurity support organizations has moved to a new paid model where states handle the bill for its services.
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Leaders in the town are considering a ban on the technology within government. The proposal makes it the third municipality in the state to consider limits to the rapidly advancing technology.
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Radiance, a Huntsville, Ala., based defense contractor, is moving 22 jobs to Baton Rouge from the Louisiana Emerging Technology Center at LSU, and it will also hire at least 10 new employees.
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According to a 2019 report from the International City Management Association, approximately one in three local governments do not know how frequently their information system is subject to attacks.
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Palestine, Texas, officials thwarted the attack before it cost money, but City Manager Leslie Cloer has asked a cybersecurity specialist with the Palestine Police Department to speak with city employees.
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Known as the six-year supplemental process, officials have routinely targeted voters who miss two years of elections to reduce potential for election fraud and need for casting provisional ballots at the polls.
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Together with federal authorities and other partners, the state government has stepped in to help municipalities ailing from the large, coordinated attack that left town data locked up by malware.
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Ransomware attacks are on the rise across the country — 22 U.S. cities were hit in the first half of 2019. Some governments pay and some don’t, but to benefit everyone and stop the growing epidemic, no one should.
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Data has been moved behind a secure federal government firewall, and a related website was shut down in May. But Homeland Security officials acknowledge they do not know whether hackers gained access to the data.
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Pearson Education, a London-based online educational program used by many school districts across the country, was recently hacked, affecting more than 13,000 school and university accounts.
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One year after signing a $218 million contract with Unisys for cloud services, and one month after a ransomware attack took public safety agencies offline, the state is investing again in security and cloud support.
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As the election board’s decision has drawn out, some state lawmakers have floated the idea of delaying the end of paperless machines and allowing them to be used in the 2020 elections after all.
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Nicholas Andersen, chief information security officer for the state of Vermont, has stepped down to pursue a role in the West Wing. Andersen, who has a lengthy national security resume, was initially hired in December 2018.
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Lake County, Ind., was hit by a cyberattack that forced email service and several internal applications to go offline last week. Systems administrators first noticed problems on some county computers Thursday afternoon.
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A new technique for detecting deepfakes conceives of videos as flip-books and looks for changes in successive frames of a sequence.
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Kansas Bureau of Investigation CIO Joe Mandala presented to legislators about the dire need to replace the state's Automated Fingerprint Identification System by 2022 or risk a complete failure.
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Among other things, the companies promised free call blocking services, call authentication technology, monitoring of networks for suspicious call traffic, and cooperating in investigations to trace back illegal calls.
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The county must encrypt its data under federal, state and local regulations. Gwinnett’s new contract adds “additional risk mitigation strategies” across the county’s network and systems, according to officials.
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Over just eight weeks, four Florida cities announced network security breaches, and some cybersecurity experts say that the number of attacks on cities in the state is likely to continue rising.
